Version: 1.7.1 (using KDE KDE 3.3.1) Installed from: RedHat RPMs It would be nice if KMail could use a smart heuristic to detect whether the message contains an ASCII table (requiring fixed width font for display, in order to line up the columns), and to switch automatically to fixed-width display for that portion of the message. I suggest the following heuristic: A line should be displayed fixed width if: 1. it consists of only dashes, only equals signs or only underscores; or 2. it contains 4 or more consecutive spaces. I think you will be surprised how many ASCII tables these two simple heuristics catch, especially in the receipts sent out by online retailers. A really smart table algorithm would, of course, look for words that start in the same column, etc., but I suspect that the above gets about 90% or more of the cases.
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