Re: [Evolution] semicolons versus commas

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:44 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> > 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.
>
> My preference would be to store the canonical version.
> I.e. even if the user enters addresses with semicolons as the delimiter,
> that Evo converts those delimiters to commas on sending, and stores it
> in exactly the same way as it stores messages now. Thus, opening a sent
> message that was composed with semicolons would show commas as
> delimiters. So the preferred and native delimiter in Evo would remain
> commas. It's just that if a person used semicolons (because that's what
> they're used to using), that Evo will accept that too. Hopefully this
> should keep the implications as small as possible, whilst still solving
> the UI concern, and making it one less thing for people to remember when
> switching from MS clients to Evo.

Sounds reasonable.

poc