Re: [Evolution-hackers] bug #47549 is really a bug or not?

[Brett Johnson <brett fc hp com>]

On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 06:58, Charles Zhang wrote:
> Hello, everyone, I wonder if you can spare some time to this.
> 
> During my analyzing to bug #47549, I found a question. 
> 
> First, I should post its description here. 
>   ============================================= 
>    1.Invoke evolution 
>    2.compose a new html mail(FIle->New->Mail Message) 
>    3.select bullet list from format toolbar and input some text. 
>    4.send mail say to yourself. 
>    5.Open the received mail. 
>    6.Observe that bullet appears as asterisk in the received mail 
>  ============================================= 
> Follow these steps above, you'll get a mail in which the bullet
> appears as asterisk indeed. 

Umm, I see no bug here -- Evolution is simply trying to make a bullet
list in ASCII, if you send it as plain text.  If you send it as html
mail, it gets sent as a multipart/alternative (text and html).  The
bullets are asterisks in the plain/text part, and are <li> html elements
in the html part.  I don't see the problem with this.  If you're
suggesting that a non-ascii character be used to represent the bullets
in ascii mail, I'd definitely think that'd be a *really* bad idea.

Cheers!
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Brett Johnson <brett hp com>
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