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 vinc17):

 Replying to [comment:13 Derek Martin]:
 > I understood perfectly well.  I just think this is pointless.  Set
 > your locale to UTF-8.

 You didn't read what I've written: it's not always possible.

 > The reason he wants this is to avoid configuring his system properly.

 Using a different locale is acceptable and allowed by the standards.
 Forcing everyone to use UTF-8 (in particular when it doesn't work
 correctly) is completely stupid. You're just stubborn and it's useless to
 discuss about that any further.

 > Mutt should not be in the business of providing hacks to make it easy to
 do the wrong thing.

 Dealing with different charsets is not a hack.

 > I'm not buying that.  I use both xterm and gnome terminal,

 These are not the only terminals. There are problems with iTerm under Mac
 OS X (look at the bug reports). But also with various software (even Mutt
 has some UTF-8 related bugs).

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