> On Oct 17, 2016, at 8:28 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > The current state of affairs is that nmh unconditionally assumes that > non-ASCII input is in the character set specified by the LC_CTYPE > environment variable (modulo the various ways that that can be specified). > What I'm suggesting would allow the environment to be overridden by an > mh_profile entry. There is zero difference from an epistemologic > standpoint: either way you're trusting the user to know what her data is.
And what I am arguing is that this override might often be on a per-message basis, thus the $NMH_LANG escape for the programs calling the underlying nmh commands. NMH_LANG might be a horribly inappropriate name, and well met. Figure out the colour of the bikeshed, but at least build the damn thing. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers