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<DIV>@Gerhard: 80 lines was how long a punch card was. What a ridiculous reason to use 80 any more. Are you even old enough to have ever seen a punch card? I almost forgot, the original IBM System/3 had punch cards of 96 columns (actually 3 rows of 32). How about if we go back to EBCDIC or even 6 bit character encoding like I started with?</DIV>
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<DIV>@Dave: First, core Drupal doesn't send HTML mail; it sends text mail. Second, not everyone's mail reader (even in these days) accepts HTML mail. I had to research sending mail for (non-Drupal) client quite a while ago, and IIRC, the text-based RFC required splitting (or wrapping) text lines. At the very least, the PHP manual highly suggests it (even now).</DIV>
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<DIV>I absolutely agree that HTML mail should be left entirely up to the reader, not the sender.<BR> </DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dave Cohen <drupal@dave-cohen.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> development@drupal.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, October 8, 2010 2:28:36 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [development] _drupal_wrap_mail_line()<BR></FONT><BR>Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of my mail client displaying mail in an easy to read fashion. I do consider it the job of a mail client to render mail that is received this way. But that's very different from mucking with what I type on the way out.<BR><BR>Software like Outlook may does such mucking. I've lost track of how many times a long URL is broken by that particular mail client. But I definately consider it a bug in outlook, and one of the reasons not to use it.<BR><BR>With markup like HTML, we consider it the job of the browser to display it
correctly. Email is no different. I still don't see any reason to break the lines. (Tradition not being an influence on drupal in any other area AFAIK.)<BR><BR>:)<BR><BR>-Dave<BR><BR>On Friday 08 October 2010 11:10:47 Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:<BR>> > So what am I missing? Can anyone tell me why this "feature" is in there?<BR>> <BR>> It is generally difficult to read lines that are too long. That's why<BR>> books, newspapers etc all have some character limit. Email just<BR>> follows this. The 80 character limit is due to early computers having<BR>> exactly this limit.<BR>> <BR>> Cheers,<BR>> Gerhard<BR>> <BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>