Attachment 5362 Details for Bug 13974 – Reference to RFC standardisation re line splitting

Reference to RFC standardisation re line splitting

file_13974.txt (text/plain), 965 bytes, created by Juergen Harms on 2014-08-22 22:40:20 CEST

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Quote from  www.imc.org/pdi/vcard-21.doc -  which is, essentially, a quote from RFC2425 (A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information) - Section 5.8.1 (Line delimiting and Coding).


<begin quote>
Long lines of text can be split into a multiple-line representation using the RFC 822 âfoldingâ technique. That is, wherever there may be linear white space (NOT simply LWSP-chars), a CRLF immediately followed by at least one LWSP-char may instead be inserted. For example the line:


NOTE:This is a very long description that exists on a long line.

Can be represented as:

NOTE:This is a very long description 
      that exists on a long line.
<end quote>


RFC2426 (vCard MIME Directory Profiles) specifies that lines longer than 75 characteres should be split (2.4.1 Binary)

<begin quote>
When generating a content line, lines longer than 75 characters SHOULD be folded according to the folding procedure described in RFC2425
<end quote>

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