* Rocco Rutte on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 13:48:25 +0100 > there're some bugs open where trouble could have been avoided if mutt > did validate character sets (e.g. #1668 and maybe //TRANSLIT in #2956). > I attached a patch with configure magic that checks for usability of > iconvlist() to see whether a character set is supported being used in > mutt_check_charset(). > > This currently isn't used anywhere since I'd like to ask for opinions on > a) whether mutt should do some sort of validation at all (I vote for it)
+1. Anything that makes charset stuff more transparent to user is good. > and b) in what places/in what situations. > > To me, the easiest way would be to simply issue warnings/errors upon > setting $charset, $send_charset, $config_charset and friends. +1. c -- Python Mutt utilities <http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/muttils/>
