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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Well, it's not soft breaks in exactly the same sense as format=flowed.
> But in QP "=" at EOL is called a soft line break.  RFC 2045 section 6.7:
>
>     (5)   (Soft Line Breaks) The Quoted-Printable encoding
>           REQUIRES that encoded lines be no more than 76
>           characters long.  If longer lines are to be encoded
>           with the Quoted-Printable encoding, "soft" line breaks
>           must be used.  An equal sign as the last character on a
>           encoded line indicates such a non-significant ("soft")
>           line break in the encoded text.

Well, these aren't line breaks at all, really, just a way to encode
long lines for transfer using shorter lines.  Which is kinda the
opposite of what format=flowed does, isn't it?

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