From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 11:57:01 CST
In <ylpuicn73e.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> The 'bar' is actually _^Hb_^Ha_^Hr and the 'baz' is ___^H^H^Hbaz.
>Gnus understands the former; the latter resulted in three underscores, a
>bold backspace character, and "baz" (which makes logical sense).
>I think the present text should be changed to only document the first
>form, as I don't think any terminal emulator or major news reader ever
>understood the second. It's unfortunate that the method that works is
>less readable in a newsreader without support for it.
OK, it now says:
Backspace SHOULD be used only for underlining, done by preceding each
character to be underlined by an underscore (ASCII 95) followed by a
backspace.
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