Re: text flowing
From Aidan Karley <doI...@validEMAILaddressTOa.NEWS.group>
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· 19 Jun 2005 10:00 · View full thread
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In article <42B...@att.net>, Bier de Stone wrote: > Whenever I copy and paste, and sometimes quote, several sources of text > in my eMail software, the recipient of the message gets the body of text > in broken paragraphs. > AIUI, this is generally because different software makes different interpretations of what is used as an end-of-line marker. Some software comes from a world where the ASCII symbol <carriage return> is used to indicate the end of a line of text ; other software comes from a world terminated by <carriage return>+<line feed> pairs. Both worlds of software are aware of the other world and attempt to cope with the other worlds bizarre habits. And there-in lies the problem : there's no reliable way of detecting which world a particular message comes from. So you get message mangling. -- Aidan Karley, Geologist, "You are in a maze of twisty little presentation styles, all [different | alike]."
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