Re: [Mutt] #3040: charset difference between index browser and pager
#3040: charset difference between index browser and pager
Comment (by Thomas Roessler):
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On 2008-03-21 16:46:51 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> 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?
The user isn't assumed to run under UTF-8. The user is assumed to
run in a consistent environment in which the terminal, the file
system, and local files share a single character set which is
inferred from the user's locale settings.
Mutt works perfectly well in a fully iso-8859-1 environment, in a
fully iso-8859-15 environment, and in a fully utf-8 environment --
to just enumerate those that I've used over the last few years.
Where mutt "fails" is in an environment that is kind of utf-8,
except for the terminal, and many of the local fils. I'd say
"tough" for that one.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3040#comment:>