On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:17:49 PST, Jon Steinhart said: > I have written some other mail processing code that handles character sets. > This code works by converting everything into UTF-8 internally. It does > this by having mapping tables that map codes from various character sets > into UTF-8 codes. These tables live in a directory full of mapping files > as there are potentially a very large number of these. Is this an approach > that we should take with nmh?
No, we should find a good external library that handles that for us. glibc comes with 'iconv', that should be a good place to start for most systems. Probably we should create a wrapper function that just calls iconv on glibc-based systems, or equivalent on other boxes. > There is no standard of which I'm aware for finding out the local character > set. Look at the $LANG environment variable, that's probably a good start on most systems. The various LC_ environment variables if you want to do more localization work.
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