On 2018-07-23, at 09:30:30, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Okay, let me cover some basics.
>
> An e-mail messages is a sequences of lines terminated in CRLF; the client and
> server software is permitted to replace the two terminating characters with
> whatever is appropriate for the OS.
>
And, I'll note that z/OS and VM convert ASCII<==>EBCDIC without suitably
adjusting charset=.
> A MIME part with QP (bletch!) encoding uses =CRLF for a soft break; that is,
> it does not represent CRLF in the unencoded text. A CRLF not preceded by an
> equal sign is a soft break; it represents a CRLF in the unencoded text.
> ^^^^
hard?
> A message with format=flowed in the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field
> uses SP CR LF for a soft break and a CRLF not preceded by a space for a hard
> break.
>
How does format=flowed represent SP CR LF occurring in the unencoded text?
How does it distinguish between a quoted line and an unquoted line
beginning with ">"?
> Note that the last two cases are both MIME.
-- gil
