Re: [Mutt] #3040: charset difference between index browser and
On 2008-03-22 16:28:43 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> 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.
This is absolute non-sense! In particular nowadays, where files
(e.g. mail messages) often come from remote people, who may use
various encodings.
> Mutt works perfectly well in a fully iso-8859-1 environment,
No, it doesn't. It mungs non-iso-8859-1 characters sent by users
that are in a utf-8 environment (in particular, the subject).
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