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Re: [Mutt] #1317: wish $edit_charset

#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):

 {{{
 On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:32:18PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

 s/display/use/.  It's already proved broken.  Why do you want to
 submit a patch to Mutt for this issue?  Answer: Because your
 configuration is broken, and you like it that way.  Instead of fixing
 it the right way, you are stubbornly clinging to the idea that
 software that doesn't work the broken way you want it to should be
 hacked to be broken so your ridiculous configuration will work.
 Instead of switching to applications that work when the ones you
 prefer don't, make other apps that do work correctly broken, so that
 you don't have to do the right thing.  How can you not see that this
 approach to the problem is asinine?  This is precisely what led to the
 creation of Unicode in the first place!

 <sarcasm mode="heavy">
 Your logic seems to be that, even though there already exists an
 elegant solution to your problem, it's better to hack every
 application in the known universe to be able to funnel data to
 arbitrary applications in arbitrary encodings which your system is not
 configured to use, because doing it the right way might force you to
 learn something new, or *worse yet* prove conclusively that you've
 been wrong all along about things being broken after all.  And we
 can't have that now, can we?
 </sarcasm>
 }}}

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