- Enriched text
Enriched text is a
formatted text format fore-mail , defined by theIETF in RFC 1896 and associated with the text/enrichedMIME type. It is "intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of simple enriched text across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms". Today, enriched text is almost unknown in e-mail traffic, whileHTML mail is widely used. Some peopleFact|date=February 2007 see enriched text, or at least the subset of HTML that can be transformed into enriched text, as a superior format for use with e-mail (mainly because of security considerations).It should not be confused with
Rich Text Format which is an entirely different specification, devised byMicrosoft . A predecessor of thisMIME type was called "text/richtext" in RFC 1341 and RFC 1521.A single newline in enriched text is treated as a space. Formatting commands are in the same style as
SGML andHTML . They must be balanced and nested. These are in other words two examples of valid enriched text:Hello, world! Hello, world! The following, on the other hand, is not:
Hello, world! An example
As an example, the following enriched text:
redBlood isthicker thanbluewater .left -- Well-known proverb would yield
Blood is thicker than water.:-- Well-known proverb
ee also
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HTML e-mail External links
* [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt The text/enriched MIME Content-type]
* [http://www.avernus.com/~gadams/essays/20020418-html-mail.html Why HTML is Inappropriate for E-Mail]
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