[Tutor] RE module is working ?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Fri Feb 4 00:32:39 CET 2011


"Karim" <karim.liateni at free.fr> wrote

> Because expression = *' "" '*  is in fact fact expression = ' "" '.
> The bold appear as stars I don't know why. 

Because in the days when email was always sent in plain 
ASCII text the way to show "bold" was to put asterisks around 
it. Underlining used _underscores_ like so...

Obviously somebody decided that Thunderbird would stick 
with those conventions when translating HTML to text :-)

Quite smart really :-)

Alan G.



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