In a message of Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:21:18 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes: >I agree that we can't reasonably know what the character set is supposed >to be in that case. But I would say that given the choice between >sending 'something wrong' and 'erroring out', 'erroring out' is the more >correct option. But I would be interested in hearing what other people >think.
I believe that nmh users are sophisticated enough that they actually know what a Locale is, and an encoding, and if they google for more information they will understand what they read. I think that they are going to want a way to specify what they want in their mh_profile though. We have a terminal room with shared workstations that all have a very restricted number of Mathematica licenses. I haven't been there for a few years, but it used to be the case that Mathematica wanted LC_ALL=C which had the result that people couldn't send mail from those terminals using some of their favourite mailers, and moreover had absolutely no clue as to what was wrong. One thing I do not know is how common it is, these days, for people to share computers. A long time ago it was common. Then it became uncommon, as everybody used their own personal laptop. These days, at least around here, there is a sizable segment of the population which doesn't own anything larger than a cell phone or a tablet, so the demand is on, again for shared spaces. True where you are? Laura _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
