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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,
-- 
Thomas Roessler   <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>