Re: [Evolution] semicolons versus commas

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:35 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> Just on this: whilst I agree with the whole obeying RFCs philosophy,
> there are effectively two distinct and separate aspects here:
> 1) The client UI in which the user types/enters their list of
> recipients
> (e.g. "blah blah com, test test com" using commas, or "blah blah com;
> test test com" using semicolons)
> 2) What Evo does when talking to a server (i.e. the client/server
> network interaction).
>
> RFCs are perfect for 2), and no disagreement whatsoever that obeying
> RFCs whilst talking to the server is "a good thing".
>
> However 1) is about a user-interface, and I'm not aware of any RFC
> that
> attempts to dictate the behaviour of a desktop app's user-interface,
> and
> frankly any attempt to do so seems doomed to failure.

Would the user's Sent copy preserve the separator, or should it store a
"canonical" version of the message? I'm not clear on the implications of
this.

poc