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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/4/2021 9:56 AM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 15:15,
Will Martin <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com"
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SuStel’s email client and OS and the default font made the
italic appear to be bold as well. <br>
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chay' ngoDHey DaSovlaH? SuStel Daghoq'a'?</blockquote>
<p>The italic appeared to be italic (it was buried in one of the
paragraphs), and the bold appeared to be bold. There were no bold
italics.</p>
<p>Qa'yIn sent his message in multipart/alternative, with the
alternatives being text/plain (with the asterisks and slashes
added) and text/html (with the text effects in html). His client
sent the parts in that order, and in multipart/alternative, the
parts are sent in order of increasing preference. This means that
your mail client will display the last one that you allow
according to your settings.</p>
<p>My email client is Thunderbird, as anyone can tell by looking at
the message source of anything I send. By default, Thunderbird
will prefer text/html over text/plain, though there's no way
anyone can tell whether I've changed the settings.<br>
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<p>So I DO have Thunderbird set to default settings in this matter
(and you should have guessed that based on how I send most
messages in text/html, but not this one because I won't add any
text effects), and it automatically shows me messages in "original
HTML." I can override this by going to View > Message Body As
> Plain Text, and now I'm seeing what you're seeing: asterisks
and slashes.</p>
<p>The thing is, virtually every mail client on the planet is
capable of displaying HTML messages now and has been for decades,
and the only reason anyone's doesn't is because they don't want it
to. And there's really not much difference between seeing *Qapla'*
and typing {Qapla'}, while anyone who wants to can see it in bold
face.</p>
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