Re: tamo.pgp_charsethack.1 (was: What's needed for mutt 1.6? (Debian patches))
On 2007-03-09 18:24:14 +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
> The whole thing is dead complex.
In fact it is dead simple. There is no character set tagging at
work, so all there is is a guess. Mutt takes its guess from the
OpenPGP spec (yeah, people don't really care), and from the native
character set that is used more and more. That happens to be utf-8.
It's as good or bad a guess as "use whatever the terminal supports."
(In fact, in the case of a lot of current Linux distributions, that
will be utf-8 as well. It certainly is here.)
If you want to use PGP and have proper character set handling,
please use PGP/MIME.
Cheers,
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Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>