On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > - We have a tradition of fixed-width displays, to the extent that we make > our reports and other legal documents (tables) that way. If tables don't > display correctly, we tend to say "switch to a fixed width browser" not > "we > have to go by the quirks of individuals' mail clients".
Just to be 100% clear: unlike ais523's example, the Gmail issue has nothing to do with wrapping; it just displays in the wrong order. IMO, there are two reasons why "look to the archives" is less compelling in this case than in the case of fixed-width reports: - With reports, you can see that they're mangled. Here, the message appears intact (just backwards from how it was meant to be displayed), so there's no indication that checking the archives is necessary. - Fixed-width reports are traditional, while Arabic is not; thus, we should be be somewhat more deferential to the burden of handling Arabic messages (including dealing with implementation issues) as potentially unreasonable.
