> On Mar 15, 2020, at 4:54 AM, no...@null.net wrote: > > By chance or by design most emails to this list, like yours above, came > wrapped at a length suitable for text-based readers. Yet every message > I've received from the forum is a shocking cut-words-in-half affair in > my terminal.
There’s a long-established email line-break-encoding convention called “format-flowed” you can thank for that. It allows the encoded text to be broken into 72-column lines while still noting where the actual line breaks are. This way those newfangled mail clients with the astonishing ability to reflow text to the user’s desired width — some even use futuristic “proportional fonts” that were recently invented in the 1400s — can work their crazy magic, while the typical user reading on a VT100 or Teletype is not inconvenienced. Seriously, RFC822 email is chock full of little affordances and edge cases like this. It’s not the sort of thing one blithely wades into. That’s part of the reason I gave for leaving forum software implementation to the experts, or at least to those who’ve had years to fix these kinds of mistakes. —Jens _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
