On 2008-03-22 16:28:43 +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: > The user isn't assumed to run under UTF-8. The user is assumed to > run in a consistent environment in which the terminal, the file > system, and local files share a single character set which is > inferred from the user's locale settings.
This is absolute non-sense! In particular nowadays, where files (e.g. mail messages) often come from remote people, who may use various encodings. > Mutt works perfectly well in a fully iso-8859-1 environment, No, it doesn't. It mungs non-iso-8859-1 characters sent by users that are in a utf-8 environment (in particular, the subject). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
