Re: stats 2024 Q1

Alfred Peters wrote:

Es schrieb einmal The Doctor:

In article <nanu.20240401124807.189@scatha.ancalagon.de>,

The Doctor wrote:

 
Statistics : from 1/1/2024 to 3/31/2024

 
How did I mangle it?

 
The problem is that you are sending a formatted table as "format=flowed".
 
With a reader that does not support this, it looks very broken. I have
switched it off for demonstration purposes:
 
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But even with activated "format=flowed" the table is not aligned
correctly, because at least Thunderbird then eats up some spaces:
 
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The problem are the paragraphs in the table (that a recepient is
allowed to rewrap to arbitrary width). This can make it look broken
differently, depending on the rewrap width that is used by the
recepient.
With flowed format a table should consist of fixed lines only
(this means no line of the table should end with SP).

The problem with the space-stuffing can be mitigated by stuffing all
lines of a table. RFC 3676 explicitly allows to space-stuff any line.
A flowed-decoder will remove the stuffing as defined by RFC 3676.
Without a flowed-decoder the whole table will be indented one character
to the right (but stays readable with correctly aligned lines).

In this case the original article does not contain text for which the
paragraph system with rewrapping makes sense. The fixed format looks
more suitable for such content.