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... Interoperability problems have been observed with erroneous labelling
of paragraph text as Text/Plain, and with various forms of
"embarrassing line wrap." (See section 3.)
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What is required is a format which is in all significant ways
Text/Plain, and therefore is quite suitable for display as
Text/Plain, and yet allows the sender ...
... Text/Plain, and therefore is quite suitable for display as
Text/Plain, and yet allows the sender to express to the receiver
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This memo proposes a new parameter to be used with Text/Plain, and,
in the presence of this parameter, the use of trailing whitespace to
indicate flowed lines. This results in an encoding ...
... indicate flowed lines. This results in an encoding which appears as
normal Text/Plain in older implementations, since it is in fact
normal Text/Plain.
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... normal Text/Plain in older implementations, since it is in fact
normal Text/Plain.
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Text/Plain is usually displayed as preformatted text, often in a
fixed font. That is, the characters start at the left margin of the
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... Numerous software products erroneously label this media type as
Text/Plain, resulting in much user discomfort.
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As Text/Plain messages get quoted in replies or forwarded messages,
the length of each line gradually increases, resulting in
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... and hard line breaks be doubled, with resulting user unhappiness when
viewed as Text/Plain. Text/HTML requires even more alteration of
text, with a corresponding increase in user complaints.
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What is desired is a format which is in all significant ways
Text/Plain, and therefore is quite suitable for display as
Text/Plain, and yet allows the sender ...
... Text/Plain, and therefore is quite suitable for display as
Text/Plain, and yet allows the sender to express to the receiver
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... The Format Parameter to the Text/Plain Media Type ...
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This document defines a new MIME parameter for use with Text/Plain:
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... If not specified, a value of Fixed is assumed. The semantics of the
Fixed value are the usual associated with Text/Plain [MIME-IMT].
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Because flowed lines are all-but-indistinguishable from fixed lines,
currently deployed software treats flowed lines as normal Text/Plain
(which is what they are). Thus, no interoperability problems are
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... user agents to generate
flowed text which is non-obnoxious when viewed as pure, raw
Text/Plain (without any decoding); use of Quoted-Printable hinders
this and may cause Format=Flowed to be rejected by end users.
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Lines contained in a Text/Plain body part with Format=Flowed can be
analyzed by examining the start and end of the line. If the line
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The constructs used in Text/Plain; Format=Flowed body parts are
described using [ABNF], including the Core Rules ...
... This parameter introduces no security considerations beyond those
which apply to Text/Plain.
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... IANA is requested to add a reference to this specification in the
Text/Plain Media Type registration.
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