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Re: charsets



* Alain Bench on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 15:34:31 +0200:
>  On Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 10:25:40 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
>> assumed_charset and iconv-hook might be worth a review
> 
>     Short summary listing:
> 
>  -1) $assumed_charset: Feature patch, assigns a charset to non-MIME
> messages (instead of pass-thru). Usefull to anybody, and even
> indispensable in UTF-8 locales. Solves numerous user cases that can't
> be cleanly solved by other means. Large user base since years (Debian,
> Gentoo, Mutt-ng), very well tested, no known malfunction since 2 years.
> Thomas dislikes it, but once said he'd accept to consider committing.
> I'm 107% for inclusion.
> 
> TLR> Even though I don't really like the assumed_charset feature, I'm
> TLR> somewhat tempted to adding it to mutt; I'd welcome comments on
> TLR> that.
> 
>  -2) $attach_charset (formerly $file_charset): Feature patch, assigns an
> origin charset to text files one attaches (instead of $charset), with
> limited but quite handy optional auto-sensing ("utf-8:iso-8859-1"). Same
> large user and tester base as $assumed. Very short and unintrusive
> patch, because it in fact just makes use of functions already present in
> Mutt. No known bug. Usefull and handy, I'm all for inclusion.
> 
>  -3) msyk.iconv-hook: Essentially bugfixes, that make iconv-hooks work.
> Principle seems to me undiscussable, so once agreed on implementation,
> this should go in.
> 
>  -4) M_ICONV_HOOK_sanitize: Bugfixes, clearing bad effects of some
> charset-hook setups. Principle already approved. Implementation works
> for me, but needs a review by other eyes. Then should go in.

<snip>

>  -1) 
> <URL:http://www10.plala.or.jp/sanrinsha/tamo/patch-1.5.9.tt+tamo.assumed.3>
> 
>  -2) On <URL:http://www.emaillab.org/mutt/download1510.html>
> patch-1.5.10.tt.attach_charset.1 and additionally
> patch-1.5.10.tt.file_charset_compat.1 (readds old $file_charset as a
> synonym).
> 
>  -3) Article <20060722161136.GA10407@xxxxxxx> here.
> 
>  -4) <20060802100503.GA1337@xxxxxxx>

I vote for patch-1.5.12.ab.doc_lacking_hooks.1 in same article to
be included as well.

Docs! Docs! Docs! ;)

c
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