Re: [Mutt] #1317: wish $edit_charset

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#1317: wish $edit_charset
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  Reporter:  Tony Leneis <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  |       Owner:  mutt-dev
      Type:  enhancement                        |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor                              |   Milestone:          
 Component:  charset                            |     Version:  1.4i    
Resolution:                                     |    Keywords:          
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Comment(by Derek Martin):

 {{{
 The author of this wish list item is complaining that if he uses
 ISO-8859-1, he can't retain curly quotes in his replies.  ISO-8859-1
 has none; he's dealing with a misconfigured Windows mailer that's
 labeling Windows-1252 (or similar) as ISO-8859-1.  This is a
 suggestion to add a gross hack to work around a brokenness in another
 program...  His problem would be solved correctly by switching to
 UTF-8, or just accepting that ISO-8859-1 just doesn't have curly
 quotes.  This "bug" is 7 years old, and there remain few genuine
 obstacles to adopting UTF-8.

 Vincent suggests this is a bug...  It's not; the conversion only
 happens when using //translit to represent characters that don't
 actually exist in the given encoding.  If Mutt is going to send the
 message out as ISO-8859-1, leaving the curly quotes in *would* be a
 bug, since they don't exist in that encoding.

 I think this should be closed.
 }}}

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