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Re: [Mutt] #3040: charset difference between index browser and pager



#3040: charset difference between index browser and pager

Comment (by Vincent Lefevre):

 {{{
 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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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3040#comment:>