UTF-8 in mail

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
>
>> (In standard non-MIMI ASCII mail, readers are not suppose to have to
>> wrap lines, but MSFT users too often send hugely long lines.)
>
> MSFT?  It's an RFC - "text/plain; format=flowed".  Readers _don't_ have to
> wrap lines, but most modern mail programs wrap before sending - including
> Microsoft's.

Yes, MSFT, based on what I've seen when lines go off the right edge.
But I'll admit the problem is getting less frequent; maybe my
gnus/xemacs is reflowing some MIME messages now.  I see several
messages here use "flowed", which I don't recall seeing before,
outside the IETF draft.

But more importantly, I said (with a typo :) "non-MIME", in which
"format=flowed" is either missing or ignored.

Thanks for the clue.  I'll try to determine if my gnus is handling
these MIME issues correctly nowadays.