#1317: wish $edit_charset
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Reporter: Tony Leneis <t...@cvr.ds.adp.com> | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: charset | Version: 1.4i
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment(by Derek Martin):
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:40:00AM -0000, Mutt wrote:
I did read what you wrote. I just dispute that it is true. You gave
the example of terminals, but that is patently false, as I demonstrate
on a daily basis. There are plenty of terminals which work perfectly
well with Unicode. Use one of those... Don't want to? Then you're
just being stubborn. Use What Works(TM).
As long as you want to only use characters that are supported by that
character set, sure. But that's not the case here. The user wants to
use a variety of characters, where the only encoding that supports
them all is Unicode. Therefore it is quite logical that he must use
Unicode, or keep running into situations where he can't do what he
needs to do.
This is not a problem that needs fixing!!! The problem that needs
fixing is to make Unicode work properly where it doesn't.
You have failed to provide an example where using UTF-8 does not work.
I'm not forcing anyone to use UTF-8. But if you want to use two
different character sets, and one of them isn't supported by the
encoding you're using... Isn't this obviously a dumb attempt at a
solution? Unicode exists precisely to solve this problem, and it does
it extremely well. The solution suggested here doesn't solve the
problem very well at all.
*I'm* stubborn?!?! I keep telling people like you how to do the
things that you keep saying aren't possible. And *I'm* stubborn?
That's a laugh.
Trying to shoehorn in support for a different character set than the one
your system is configured to use IS a hack. Period. If you want an
elegant solution, there is only one...
So don't use iTerm. Use Xterm. It's supported on Mac. Saying that
Unicode is inadequate because some particular application has a bug is
just inane.
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