[ale] Line wrap in Mozilla versus shell based email

[Dow Hurst]

Thanks for checking that!  I don't want to post emails to list in an 
impolite form.  Should I set the compose window to plain text format as 
the default?
Dow


Pete Hardie wrote:

> Dow Hurst wrote:
>
>> Also, I like sticking the little smiley faces, or emoticons, in the 
>> text but I have never looked at those in a email client that might 
>> not render them.  Do they display in mutt or pine as the usual type 
>> of text based emoticons of past fame?  For example, does :-) look 
>> like :-)  in mutt or pine?  The first one is a text based colon, 
>> dash, and right parentheses while the second is a standard smiley 
>> face from the menu in Mozilla.  
>
>
> IIRC, Mozilla is just mapping :-) and the rest onto graphics during 
> display, and does not alter the ASCII text.  Empirical tests (just 
> changed that flag) shows that your ASCII :-) displayed as the yellow 
> smiley face.
>
>
>

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