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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility
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Tom Lane |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility |
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Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:35:20 -0400 |
Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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.
> Weeeelll ... my reluctance there is I don't want to duplicate Unix
> functionality without a very good reason. And Unix already umpteen
> ways to do this; you could wrap all of the nmh commands with aliases
> or shell wrappers, for one. It just feels unnecessary.
I thought Laura's suggestion was to be able to put something like
locale: en_GB.utf8
into ~/.mh_profile, which seems eminently sensible to me. Yes, there
are other ways to get the same result, but they're hacks. Wrapping
every MH command with a shell wrapper in order to force its locale
is surely a hack. The alternative of a session-wide LC/LANG setting
may have side-effects that the user doesn't want, so I'd rate that
as a hack too.
regards, tom lane
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Laura Creighton, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Tom Lane, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Tom Lane, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Laura Creighton, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility,
Tom Lane <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Tom Lane, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Paul Fox, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/10/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/17