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Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion
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Aleksander Matuszak |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:37:45 +0100 |
Ken Hornstein writes:
> I've been grappling with to do when we have issues with character set
> conversion.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of experience and troubles with character
set conversion.
> Specifically, I have two issues:
>
> - What to do if the character set is unsupported.
> Should we return the original bytes?
It is not the best idea. Some sequences of bytes are control sequences
for terminal. This sometimes set terminal in unusable state.
> An error? [..] Some string which says, "We cannot convert
> klingon-8842 to us-ascii" or the equivalent?
>
In practice it means a spam in exotic language and at this point I know
that I do not want to read such a message.
In rare cases when I want to read in charset unsupported by
configuration this is advantage of mh system that it is possible to
handle it separately. Save, decode, convert .. whatever.
> - What to do when we cannot convert a particular character. This is a
> little more clear; the general trend is to use a substitution
> character.
This is very frequent and causes a lot of troubles. Entire message in
English and one foreign family name in original. Message send in utf-8
but (suppose) my terminal support only ASCII. Converison would fail.
I can prepare an example but including it into this message can make it
difficult to read.
In my personal opinion a very good choice is conversion into
html-entities, like ą or ł . It remains quite readable and
is still unique enough to convert it back in case of need.
max
- [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion,
Aleksander Matuszak <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Jerrad Pierce, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28