Standard for quoting in plain-text messages.

[Jacob Palme <jpalme@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11.18 +0200 98-08-18, Ian Bell wrote:
> > : ian: randy> } This paragraph has been quoted five
>times using quoting conventions often seen. How will you
>display it correctly, let alone reply and quote correctly:
>especially if the user wants to split the paragraph in two?
>
>
> The problem of quoted text being badly displayed and badly requoted will
> have become a consequence of a published standard rather than the
> consequence of a non-conformant MUA breaking text/plain - much worse IMO.

Perhaps there should be a standard for how to do quoting in
plain text (not HTML) messages. There are many bad
implementations of this. For example, I have seen
implementations which keep Quoted-Printable codes in quoted
text, while the new message is sent without
qouted-printable encoding, or keeps text in other character
sets in the quoted text than in the rest of the message,
and without any ISO 2022 codes to indicate the switch
between character sets.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme@xxxxxxxxx> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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