Re: [Mutt] #3040: charset difference between index browser and
On 2008-03-21 15:20:25 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> So, why don't you use utf-8 in terminals?
Because not all software supports multibyte characters (in particular
not too old versions of zsh). Also, almost all my files are in
ISO-8859-1, so that using ISO-8859-1 is more practical (mainly for
"grep", when searching files on a regexp with accented characters).
fvwm is also buggy in UTF-8 locales.
> Last time I used linux, that worked very well -- and it works very
> well on MacOS now, too.
Mac OS X 10.4.* has some problems: Try "cat", then type:
aé[Backspace][Backspace][Enter]
> I frankly wouldn't bother adding code to mutt to work properly in
> another inconsistent specification edge case, where the user
> actually runs several locales in parallel.
The problem occurs even when using only *one* locale. If the user
is assumed to run under UTF-8, how about removing the $charset
variable?
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