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Re: [Nmh-workers] quotes in personal names


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] quotes in personal names
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:42:43 +0000

Hi,

Friend Robert Elz wrote:
> > I guess I'm arguing for the double quotes to remain unless effort is
> > expended to `do it right',
> 
> Done right would be better - but this is just a scan display, the name
> is simply truncated if wider than N columns, worrying about
> unexpanding it perfectly is pretty silly when you then simply slash
> the result.

No, it's friendly() output, not a scan display, and that crops up in all
kinds of places, including the attribution at the start of some quoted
text in a reply;  see above.

Cheers,


Ralph.





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