-On encoding text, lines terminated by soft newline characters are
-filled together and wrapped after the column decided by
-@code{fill-flowed-encode-column}. This variable controls how the text
-will look in a client that does not support flowed text, the default
-is to wrap after 66 characters. If hard newline characters are not
-present in the buffer, no flow encoding occurs.
+On encoding text, regardless of @code{use-hard-newlines}, lines
+terminated by soft newline characters are filled together and wrapped
+after the column decided by @code{fill-flowed-encode-column}.
+Quotation marks (matching @samp{^>* ?}) are respected. The variable
+controls how the text will look in a client that does not support
+flowed text, the default is to wrap after 66 characters. If hard
+newline characters are not present in the buffer, no flow encoding
+occurs.