Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What worries me the most is if there is any guarantee that this bug you >> are exploiting to force it to send a patch in the common denominator >> format _will not be fixed_ in future versions of Thunderbird. > > It's not a bug, it's a feature ;) > > In fact it really is: preformatted text in HTML (<pre>) is by definition > left alone. Now, when you are about to send an HTML mail TB asks you > what to do (or takes a choice from preferences/addressbook): send as > HTML, as text or both. Ok, "TB asks you what to do and you choose 'text-only'" is the part I missed. In that case, I'd agree it definitely is a feature not to use flowed to convert that <pre>..</pre> to a plain text. Thanks for an explanation. >> I see your patch deals only with ampersand, less-than, greater-than and >> dquot. Do you know if this is enough, or would letters outside US-ASCII >> need to be expressed in ampersand-hash "character reference" notation? > > According to Ben of Mozilla fame this is enough for special characters. > I don't know about UTF-8, though. Usually, TB recognizes the proper > encoding. Yeah, anything outside US-ASCII. That was what I was wondering about. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
