Hi, * Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:36:11AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > No, you did not understand the problem and what the user wants. The > > user wants to edit the message in UTF-8 even though his terminal uses > > another charset. > I understood perfectly well. I just think this is pointless. Set > your locale to UTF-8. The reason he wants this is to avoid > configuring his system properly. Mutt should not be in the business > of providing hacks to make it easy to do the wrong thing. Mutt has $config_charset which, for the same reason, should be deprecated if I follow your argumentation because setting UTF-8 everywhere would make it'd be superflous. I'm not sure we can and should generalize that all editors involved really derive their encoding from $LC_ALL and friends, especially using GUI editors. Rocco
