[Kde-pim] Re: Line length

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Thursday, June 02, 2011 07:55:08 AM Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was on a fix tests mood last night and I came across a difference of
> oppionon in the tests vs the implementation.
> 
> The tests seemed to think that the trailing newline on a line of text
> should not be counted when determining when to break a line, but the
> implementation counts that.
> 
> What should we use?

There is a multiple-page article about email line length at 
http://mailformat.dan.info/body/linelength.html (I wished we supported soft 
line breaks).

Anyway, I say don't count the linebreaks, the original limit of 78 characters 
from the RFC was just for display reasons on console displays, which have 80 
columns. Therefore it makes no sense to take invisible characters into account 
when counting the line length.

Regards,
Thomas
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