Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap.
> > When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes
> > are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me
> > that it takes 78 signs for him.
> > Is there a standard for how many signs it should take to do an automatic
> > line wrap?
> 
> The only thing that might come close to a standard would be this:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
> 
> - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
>       with a carriage return.
> 
> but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like 
> (g)vim).
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

I wonder if there's a valid reason to e.g. use 78 characters instead.
The pen friend using Alpin, does use braille. Perhaps the braille gear
has got 78 elements. I'll ask him.

Regards,
Ralf