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Re: quoted-printable support
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lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 19 May 2003 23:23:38 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
I think s/=$/\n/ would be adequate for that case.  You could always
improve it later.

Adding a second newline?

You mean  $body =~ s/=\n/\n/g  or  $body =~ s/=$//m ?

Yes, that's what I meant.

Any of those would break words in half.  (The = at the end isn't guaranteed
to occur at a line break.)

It's usually at a line break, though, isn't it?  And even so it is
better than what is currently displayed; further refinements could be
made to make it better yet...

Or just let the browser do the word wrapping in this case.

--
William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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(...) On the well-behaved e-mail clients, yes. On the worse clients, they jam a whole paragraph into a single line. I saw one which resulted in a line 890 characters long.(!) (...) I agree -- a hideously long line is better than one that's full of (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Adding a second newline? You mean $body =~ s/=\n/\n/g or $body =~ s/=$//m ? Any of those would break words in half. (The = at the end isn't guaranteed to occur at a line break.) --Todd (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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