>> - If we have to choose one, the only logical choice is Unicode (which in >> practice means UTF-8; maybe UTF-16, but a trip through the format >> code made me think that UTF-8 is probably the only real choice). > >One very reasonable option would be to use the current locale default. >This is what the current mh-format decode() does. The current locale is >also what you can expect the terminal to display correctly and the >user's text editor to handle.
The decode() function has an easier job since the character set is embedded in the string to be decoded. It gets a lot harder to do this in the general case within all of nmh. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
