Ray_Net wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 22-01-17 20:25:
mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
It seems to be having anything other than a-z (even an accented
character) adjacent to the opening or closing asterisk that prevents
the text from being formatted:
*Several words with no numbers*
*Several words ending with a number 1*
*1 number and several words*
*Several words ending with punctuation!*
*Several words ending with an accented á*
*======================================*
It's not a problem having any of those characters in the middle of
the text, just not at the start or end:
*Several words with 1 number in the middle*
*Several words with an accented á in the middle*
*x====================================x*
Not sure what people want to do with that...
Well done!
And now we know it wasn't the OP's fault.
Particularly as they posted as HTML anyway.
Therefore, it's better to write in HTML .....
One could argue that this whole discussion arose precisely because the
OP *did* post in HTML, with unnecessary formatting on a few lines. If
the original message started out as plain-text, I don't suppose those
lines would have been surrounded by "*"s at all!
plain-text with
_*/bold/italic/underline gadget/*_ IS NOT USABLE !
There's not really any need for a mail client to even try formatting * /
and _ in plain text messages. I think those were originally just a human
reading convention. You'd see a word or a few words surrounded by those
characters and understand that the message was intended to be read with
emphasis on /those/ particular words.
I think mail clients actually attempting to formatting the text as such
came later. That feature seems to be a a bit hit-and-miss, and it's
going to be to a certain extent since those characters don't necessarily
mean the author intended them to be interpreted as formatting at all.
Perhaps it would save the confusion if the mail client didn't even try
formatting plain text - just display it as unformatted text and let the
human get on with interpreting it ;o)
--
Mark.
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