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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
> > > 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?
>
> 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.(!)
Yes, I've seen that too. You could always use Text::Wrap to reformat
anything over 80 characters...
> > And even so it is
> > better than what is currently displayed;
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> I agree -- a hideously long line is better than one that's full of hdideous
> = and =XX codes.
The biggest problem is the =3D in Brickshelf URL's. Even a special
case to change =3D to = would be a huge help.
> > further refinements could be
> > made to make it better yet...
>
> It'd be hard to back-port to older messages though (although I'll be saving
> original backup copies of any mods, so it would be possible to re-do them
> with an improved algorithm).
I assumed you would store the message without any changes, and convert
it when displaying the message, perhaps with a cache for performance
if needed.
> > Or just let the browser do the word wrapping in this case.
>
> Well, see that's part of the problem. The webserver outputs <TD NOWRAP> so
> that the messages aren't fighting with the column on the right for screen
> space. It prevents regular messages from coming out like this:
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> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxx
Yes, but it isn't necessary to have wrapping enabled for all messages,
just the ones that were quoted-printable.
> But I think I'll have a robust solution this week, because I need to solve
> the text-wrapping problem once and for all for a larger class of text cases
> for something related.
Cool!
--
William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) Unfortunately, Text::Wrap doesn't handle mail- and news-style quotations, and would happily convert: > >> >really especially long line of quoted text to (bad): > >> >really especially long line of quoted text instead of to (good): > >> >really (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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