Re: Q: Space stuffing (RFC 3676)

Tony Finch <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:39:43 +0100
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Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Section 4.4 of RFC 3676 says:
>
>    On generation, any unquoted lines which start with ">", and any lines
>    which start with a space or "From " MUST be space-stuffed.  Other
>    lines MAY be space-stuffed as desired.
>
> What does "as desired" mean?  If lines are treated at random, it is obviously
> impossible to tell stuffed spaces from original indentation.

I think it should say that indented lines MUST also be space-stuffed.

Tony.
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