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Re: [Mutt] #1317: wish $edit_charset



On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:32:18PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2009-07-05 14:30:49 -0400, Kenny Thomas wrote:
> > Given that this bug has been brough up on this list several times, and
> > given that it has no chance of being implemented. Why not just close
> > the bug report?
> 
> No, there is still chance of being implemented. I may try to write a
> patch, but not before Mutt 1.6 is out.

Go ahead, but it has already been stated that the chance of it going
upstream are 0.

> 
> > If a user insists on configuring their terminal to use a encoding
> > that cannot display all of the charecters in the charecter sets that
> > they want to communicate in, things will break.
> 
> I don't see why it will break (prove it!). This is not because some
> character cannot be displayed that it cannot be handled internally.

If you dont understand by now. attempting to explain it to you would
be an exercise in futility.

> 
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