[FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after submitted

[Adrian Tymes]

--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Kalle Blomster <kalle.blomster at gmail.com> wrote:
> My five cents on this entire debacle: this is 2008, not 1988.

And even in 2008, ASCII remains the standard.  There still remains a
large installed base of mail clients that prefer to let people scroll,
rather than automatically word-wrap.  (Perhaps the user is viewing a
large image, which can not be wrapped, as part of some HTML email.)
There also remain email clients and servers that handle Unicode in,
shall we say, "special" ways (especially when dealing with non-Unicode
character sets that claim to be Unicode; I hear the latest versions of
Word sometimes have trouble with Unicode support, so their output might
not quite be the standard) - and you don't always know what email servers
your message will be routed through.

Even some brand new, state of the art machines, have email clients that
act this way.  (Anyone know the default configuration on those hundred
dollar laptops the One Laptop Per Child project uses?  I do believe they
were going for older, more thoroughly tested software in non-essential
areas, to keep costs down.)

Decades of progress do not always result in progress in all areas.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if this circumstance is still around
in 2028.

> DO NOT:
> Use hard linebreaks except for new paragraphs; any decent
> mail client does 
> automatic linewrapping in an easily configurable manner so
> people can adjust 
> line length to their own preference.

Sorry, but that is a definite DO.  Otherwise, well - see the above.
Notice how broken the text appears to be, when another mail client
imposes its own thoughts on automatic wrapping, which can best be
avoided by wrapping your own text.