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 Vincent Lefevre):

 {{{

 No, you did not understand the problem and what the user wants. The
 user wants to edit the message in UTF-8 even though his terminal uses
 another charset. This is possible with most editors nowadays: they
 can handle UTF-8 internally, even though the locale is something
 like ISO-8859-1. If such an editor uses its own window, then it will
 ignore the locale there (it can display UTF-8). If the editor uses
 the terminal window, it does charset translation/transliteration for
 the *display* only; internally, the original UTF-8 characters remain
 intact.

 Note that this is an option: the user will not be forced to use a
 different charset for the terminal and for the file to be edited.


 There are still some places where UTF-8 is badly handled, e.g.
 in terminals. Also I move from time to time and I sometimes use
 other people's machines to read my mail via ssh; and UTF-8 isn't
 always available.
 }}}

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