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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character s
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Jon Steinhart |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:00:32 -0700 |
Ken Hornstein writes:
> Well, this works great if your locale is UTF-8. But ... what happens
> if your email address contains UTF-8, and your locale setting is
> ISO-8859-1?
>
> --Ken
You get "rubout" characters or whatever. Nothing else can be done.
I think that you're asking "how do I display red when I don't have
red" and the answer is, you don't. To be really retro about it, if
I'm reading email on a VT-100 and someone includes a UTF-8 arabic
character in the email address, I'm out of luck; it can't be displayed.
Are we making a bigger issue out of this than necessary? There are
very few actual VT-100s left in the work outside of the Computer History
Museum. Most people use devices that can support Unicode. This is like
our old discussion about supporting non-Posix systems. Who gets left in
the dust if we go Unicode? Is it a significant portion of the user base?
Jon
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Oliver Kiddle, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Jon Steinhart, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set,
Jon Steinhart <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Anthony J. Bentley, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12