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| Posted by Vladimir Panteleev in reply to kdevel | PermalinkReply |
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Vladimir Panteleev
Posted in reply to kdevel
| On Sunday, 27 November 2022 at 20:25:59 UTC, kdevel wrote:
> It seems that the reply function cannot correctly group lines of quotes into paragraphs. Reminds me of the famous format=flowed issues [1] (trailing space on a line means: join the line with the next one.)
[1] https://joeclark.org/ffaq.html
The forum is behaving correctly, Ali's post is just weird. Click "View source" and notice that the quoted lines are space-stuffed. This syntax tells user-agents that the > character should be handled verbatim, and not as a quote indicator.
I think Thunderbird makes it easy to do this accidentally by copying and pasting text. It has a separate "Paste as quotation" action to paste proper quoted text.
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