Enriched Text Format

Context:
- It can be defined in RFC 1896.
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See: HTML e-Mail, Formatted Text, File Format, MIME, Rich Text Format (RTF), SGML, HTML.

References

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/enriched_text Retrieved:2023-9-11.
- Enriched text is a formatted text format for e-mail, defined by the IETF in RFC 1896 and associated with the text/enriched MIME type which is defined in RFC 1563. It is "intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of simple enriched text across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms". As of 2012, enriched text remained almost unknown in e-mail traffic, while HTML e-mail is widely used. Enriched text, or at least the subset of HTML that can be transformed into enriched text, is seen as preferable to full HTML for use with e-mail (mainly because of security considerations). ^[1] A predecessor of this MIME type was called text/richtext in RFC 1341 and RFC 1521. Neither should be confused with Rich Text Format (MIME type text/rtf or application/rtf) which are unrelated specifications, devised by Microsoft. A single newline in enriched text is treated as a space. Formatting commands are in the same style as SGML and HTML. They must be balanced and nested. Enriched text is a supported format of Emacs, ^[2] Mutt, Mulberry and Netscape Communicator.