Better text/plain version of the summary email

[bzg]

Problem: the text/plain version could be more readable

When emails are both in text/plain and text/html, my email client displays the text/plain version by default. The text/plain version of ma-semaine emails is not as readable as it could be.

Don't use markdown and utf-8 emojis

1. Use plain text formatting instead of markdown for text/plain: e.g. replace ** by *, etc.
2. Use a old school plain/text smileys instead of utf-8 emojis.

Other people might need this

Since this application is likely to be used by developers and because some of them are likely to display text/plain versions of emails, this could be a real plus.

[AntoineAugusti]

Thanks for the report. It's not a major issue because it doesn't concern a majority of users and can be resolved through configuration. The layout doesn't seem too much broken for now in plain text.

Can you share a screenshot to see what it looks like?

[bzg]

Thanks for the feedback. Here you go:

The question is: why using markdown in plain text? Is it something you need to let users add some formatting?

[AntoineAugusti]

The email view is written in Markdown and rendered in HTML by Laravel. It seems Laravel sends the unrendered version of the Markdown source as the plain text version for the email.

[bzg]

Ah, ok. I guess nobody cares about plain text enough to tell Laravel to DTRT.

[AntoineAugusti]

I'd say is not too bad as it is! Doing automatically another thing would require a decent amount of code and would be subjective.

[bzg]

I disagree on the "subjective": there is a text/markdown MIME type, and using markdown in text/plain is surprising. But let's agree to disagree :) I understand this is too much code for just one guy (for now).