Re: [Nmh-workers] repl and mime handling

[Ken Hornstein]

>> - If we have to choose one, the only logical choice is Unicode (which in
>>   practice means UTF-8; maybe UTF-16, but a trip through the format
>>   code made me think that UTF-8 is probably the only real choice).
>
>One very reasonable option would be to use the current locale default.
>This is what the current mh-format decode() does. The current locale is
>also what you can expect the terminal to display correctly and the
>user's text editor to handle.

The decode() function has an easier job since the character set
is embedded in the string to be decoded.  It gets a lot harder to
do this in the general case within all of nmh.

--Ken