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Re: quoted-printable support
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Date: 
Wed, 21 May 2003 16:03:39 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

I have installed a filter so that incoming articles with the header:

   Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

are converted to 8bit encoding.  The header is replaced with:

   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
   X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lugnet.com

and the = and =XX encodings are handled.  Long lines are broken at 80
columns except when matching one of the following conditions:

* tabular or columnar data:  /\S\t/  or  /\S\040{3,}/
* numerical data:  /(-?[0-9\.]+ ){6,}/

Does this also prevent breaking of URLs?

Frank



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  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Correct -- it never breaks a URL, even if it's 300 characters long or more. It may still break the *line* the URL appears on (and this is why I didn't list this in the conditions above) but it will never break the URL itself. The line-breaking (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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