On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:59:04PM +0100, Salve Håkedal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:31:21PM +0100, Salve Håkedal wrote: > > > I'm Norwegian. > > > I'd like to have mutt put 'Sv:' instead of 'Re:' when I reply to > > > messages, but can't find how to do it. > > > > Re: is not from English, it's from Latin (and therefore local to no > > one, since it's a dead language), and if I recall correctly it is > > actually specified in the RFCs. Assuming I'm not wrong about that, > > localization is inappropriate and Mutt is correct to force using Re: > > in the subject line. "Be lenient in what you accept, and strict in > > what you emit." > > > Hmm. Ok, then. But this is from > /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz (Debian): > " > 3.210. reply_regexp [...] > So it seems German is accepted by some people!
Yeah, likely explanation: Thomas (the previous Mutt maintainer) is German, and probably added this before RFC 2822 was published. But note that this does not conflict with anything I wrote, particularly, "Be lenient in what you accept, but be strict in what you emit." Many e-mail clients allow/have localized versions of the string; they violate the spec, but you still have to be able to deal with them. Mutt should still SEND "Re:" in all cases. (I would argue the default value should be changed, but I don't care enough to file a bug for it.) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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