fixed the folding/unfolding story for the Description field

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Tarek Ziadé 2009-12-29 22:16:50 +00:00
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@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ field as-is. This means that authors should be conservative in
the markup they use.
To support empty lines and lines with indentation with respect to
the RFC 822 format, any new line has to be suffixed by 7 spaces
the RFC 822 format, any CRLF character has to be suffixed by 7 spaces
followed by a pipe ("|") char. As a result, the Description field is
encoded into a folded field that can be interpreted by RFC822
parser [2]_.
@ -143,8 +143,9 @@ Example::
| 3
|
This encoding implies that any occurences of "``\n |``" have to be replaced
by "``\n``" when the field is unfolded using a RFC822 reader.
This encoding implies that any occurences of a CRLF followed by 7 spaces
and a pipe char have to be replaced by a single CRLF when the field is unfolded
using a RFC822 reader.
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