Hi Kevin,

On Monday, 2016-08-22 20:17:14 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

> Please everyone, don't be shy to let me know if you think this is a
> stupid change.

Well, I think removing the $locale variable was a stupid change ;-)
Whether to add $attribution_locale I don't really care, fine for me as
long as $locale is an alias for $attribution_locale. Also the change to
not switch back and forth the locale for LC_TIME is good. But making
$locale a) not work, and b) complain everytime a hook uses it is ugly
and unnecessary.

Since $locale always only worked in LC_TIME context and defaulted to 'C'
regardless of the users' environment, users who cared set it to their
locale, along with $date_format. Still accepting $locale would not
change anything for them. Users who not used $locale will experience
a change only if their environment is not 'C' or 'en_US' and
$date_format does not start with "!".

But forcing the pile of existing muttrc
reply-hook "~f '...'" 'set locale="..."; set attribution="..."'
to change is awkward, especially if the same configuration is used on
several machines of which some run mutt tip and some don't.

Please reconsider.

  Eike

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