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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:29:13 -0400 |
>For the moment, I've worked around the problem by launching exmh (and
>nothing else) in en_US.utf8 locale, so that the nmh calls all inherit
>that. But I regard that as a hack not a fix. It affects directory
>listings done by exmh, e.g. in save-to-file dialogs, and there may be
>other side-effects as well; I haven't been using this workaround for
>long enough to know.
If things like the ls sorting order is your concern, as others have
pointed out you could simply just use LC_CTYPE; that shouldn't affect
any collation ordering.
>All of these solutions presuppose that this is my problem and not the
>software's. I respectfully disagree. I would like it to "just work"
>whether or not there are stray UTF8 characters.
I do not know how we could make it "just work". The OLD solution was to
send out incorrectly-formatted messages; that's simply not a reasonable
option anymore. It wasn't really a reasonable option for 20 years,
honestly, but we're kind of slow with regards to that. You don't want to
tell nmh what the character set is (the locale is the EASIEST option,
but there are others - all of them involve you changing something).
--Ken
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Paul Fox, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Tom Lane, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Tom Lane, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Laura Creighton, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Laura Creighton, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, David Levine, 2016/10/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Laura Creighton, 2016/10/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, David Levine, 2016/10/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Laura Creighton, 2016/10/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, David Levine, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, David Levine, 2016/10/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Tom Lane, 2016/10/19