On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 05:21:08PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:06:49 -0500 > s...@pobox.com wrote: > > It seems that all checkin mails are utf-8-encoded. This makes it > > challenging to view checkin mails if you have a text-based mail reader. (I > > use VM within XEmacs. XEmacs doesn't seem to support utf-8 out of the box. > > I believe you need to add MULE to it.) > > Hmm, are you sure? Software (especially mail-reading software) that > doesn't support utf-8 in 2011 should be considered extremely broken. > > (I understand you may be a native English speaker, but do you never > receive non-ASCII utf-8 e-mail at all? doesn't it get displayed > properly?)
In my experience it is very difficult to get a whole system configured, such that UTF-8 works reliably. In my case that would mean, I think, Linux, glibc, mutt, screen, elinks, and SecureCRT would all have to simultaneously be configured precisely correctly in order to get it to work. I have certainly never managed it, anyway. Mind you, I've never managed to get the <-- button working reliably either, but to be fair that's insanely complicated too. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
