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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 2008-03-22 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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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3040#comment:>