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Re: [Mutt] #2956: Recipient address broken if containing Š character (UTF-8 code: 0xc5 0xA0)



#2956: Recipient address broken if containing Š character (UTF-8 code: 0xc5 
0xA0)

Comment (by Vincent Lefevre):

 {{{
 On 2007-09-18 09:30:14 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
 > It just occurred to me... given that your $charset is UTF-8, what's the
 > purpose of //TRANSLIT? All possible characters are displayable in UTF-8,
 so
 > //TRANSLIT shouldn't actually be providing any benefit (that I'm aware
 of).
 > Is there something I'm missing?

 This is because I use:

 set charset=`codeset 2> /dev/null || locale charmap`//TRANSLIT

 The charmap is not always UTF-8, that's why I need //TRANSLIT.

 (And FYI, codeset is a small program I wrote for a buggy OS that
 doesn't understand "locale charmap".)
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2956#comment:>