On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 4:43:05 PM, Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JA> On Wednesday, September 01, 2004, jwayne wrote... >> A major problem with 2.x was that it wouldn't render Outlook email properly. It >> often concatenates words. Very annoying, especially when one wants to >> reply/forward the message. >> The bug was reported long ago but was never fixed. Does 3.0 fix this? JA> No, but the problem is a mixed issue. The cause is Outlook wrapping JA> HTML lines, but not showing any kind of spacing between the two words. JA> Nicely formatted email based HTML, would look like this: JA> this is a new = JA> line JA> The = would tell TB to leave the space there (or they could use %20 or JA> ), and would nicely put a break in it. However, outlook does it JA> like this: JA> this is a new JA> line JA> The trailing space doesn't exist, so when TB unwraps it, it has no JA> idea that they aren't two separate words. Of course, it could do it a JA> different way, and treat a new line as a white space like most JA> programs do. But then, what do you do with the additional space that JA> gets put in there if somebody uses the top format? ;) Take a look at JA> the HTML formatted email that TB sends out, it inserts the =, there JA> are a few others do as well, I believe evolution does too. I hear what you are saying but it's only on a reply that TB screws up. 1) TB is able to read the multipart/mixed message correctly. 2) The attached "HTML-message" file renders correctly when launched 3) Forwarding the message (contrary to my original post) doesn't concatenate The burden (unfortunately) really rests on TB to fix how it handles replies to such messages. MS is probably not going to do a diddly damn about it. They have the market share, not TB. If TB's authors are serious about it becoming more widely accepted they will have to take into account Outlook quirks (as well as becoming more serious about very unprofessional and long standing issues such as the atrocious Help file.) (Suggestion one: look at the x-header. If it's from Outlook, substitute a space for a crlf. Suggestion two: handle replies like forwards.) 'Course, the recent 3.0 fiasco may make all of this a moot point. They certainly aren't making friends these days... jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
