# "Broken" quoting of/into email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2017 年7 月 6 日 03:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705 "2017-07-06T03:25:37Z")\
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作者： ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
发布日期： [2017 年7 月 6 日 04:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-quoting-of-into-email/65705/5 "2017-07-06T04:29:13Z")

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People want to be able to inline-quote via e-mail, with a similar end result as via the web interface (highlight, click “quote”). It’s _really_ unlikely we’d be able to get the results _quite_ the same (extracting the `[quote]` metadata would be fiendishly tricky), but we could at least recognise common HTML quoting styles, and transmogrify them into the equivalent of how `>` gets handled in markdown:

> Why is recognizing quoted text important?

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