267409 - ' -> ' not picked up properly as quote characters

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Osborne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54  [en]
Build Identifier: thunderbird 20040913

So I send someone an email.

And they reply back with these funky '->' quotes

-> so that my email
-> is echoed back to me
-> like this

Thunderbird doesn't handle these properly; when I reply back to his email and 
leave the '->' quoted lines in there, the whole email gets munged into one line.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.see problem description

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> So I send someone an email.
> 
> And they reply back with these funky '->' quotes

Those won't be recognized as normal quotes, and it's highly unlikely that the 
program will be changed to add those.  You should get Someone to stop quoting 
like that.


> Thunderbird doesn't handle these properly; when I reply back to his email and 
> leave the '->' quoted lines in there, the whole email gets munged into one
> line.

I'm not quite sure what this means.  Can you provide a sample message that 
exhibits this problem?

Comment 2

[Vladislav Duma]

This might have happened due to the another quoting standard: adding sender's
initials befor the quote sign. Like this:

Vladislav Duma wrote:
 VD> Hello, this is only
 VD> a test message...

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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