Re: [Evolution] Recognizing Arbitrary Message Quotations (was Re: [Evolution]

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 16:53, Dave Euser wrote:
> Just a few thoughts on this:
> You could assume that any characters marking a quotation will be non
> alphanumeric (makes some things simpler). 
> But this brings up other issues:
>       1) how to recognize a single line being quoted (ie the original
>       message has only one line). I would assume that you would have  to have
> 2+ lines to make a valid assumption that the character(s)     you're
> looking at are a quotation marker, and not actually part of   the text
>       2) what happens if the original message has some kind of list:
>       eg      - item 1
>               - item 2
>               - item 3
>       This could easily be interpreted as a quotation marker. How to
>       distinguish?

You can't make the assumption that the quote marker will be
non-alphanumeric. Emacs, for example has this nasty habbit of quoting
with, for example:

Euser> this is quoting what Dave Euser said.

That contains alpha-numeric characters.

> Definitely not a simple problem....it might come to the point of
>       a) not doing anything at all....leave things as-is
>       b) make certain assumptions, causing some mis-quoted messages

This is what we currently do

>       c) create a list of standard quotation markers and work from    that list

There is only 1 standard way, and that is "> " which is also specified
by an internet standards draft.

Jeff