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):

 {{{
 On 2009-07-02 14:19:29 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:

 That's why one may need to switch between different locales (e.g. for
 grep), because not all files use the same charset. Some files are
 remote files, shared by several users, and one doesn't necessarily
 has the choice.


 If some users don't know how to configure their system, complain to
 them, not here.


 I don't know what you mean here, but by default, Mutt does bad things
 with charsets. The $thorough_search variable is broken by design and
 should be removed.


 This remark is ridiculous. First because Mutt is one of the
 applications that break under a UTF-8 locale (see above). Then because
 one doesn't necessarily have the choice; even when there are other
 similar applications that have no problems with UTF-8, they may have
 more important bugs so that they can't be used.

 Anyway since Mutt allows the user to run it under non-UTF-8 locales,
 using such locales should be assumed to be OK.


 Wrong. For instance, editors must respect the encoding of XML files
 (which is provided with the file in some way), and doing something
 else would be against the XML spec.

 Now more generally, emacs (and probably others) can be configured to
 use an encoding declared by user to *match* the encoding of the file.
 Saying that it is broken would be stupid. Note: again, Mutt is
 concerned by this point (e.g. the "edit" command).
 }}}

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