Re: [Nmh-workers] repl and mime handling

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> > But restrict the entire nmh to utf-8 charset would cripple system.

How so, specifically?  Plan9 has run a native UTF8-only mail environment 
for ages (with a very MH-like mailstore, as well), and it's far from 
crippled.  It stores messages in their native format, and dynamically 
converts message content to UTF8 whenever the underlying message is read. 
(There are also interfaces that let you read the message in it's raw 
(un-translated) format, for actions like message/rfc822 forwarding.)  All 
new content is generated using utf-8.

In the 10 or so years I've been using it for production mail, I have never 
had problem with incoming mail, nor have I had issues with people not 
being able to read anything I sent to them.  These days, pretty much any 
MIME capable MUA that understands character sets can handle UTF8.

As for external tools that cannot handle UTF8 text, they most likely can't 
handle random ISO* charsets, either.

UTF8 is where the world is going.  nmh should get on board.

--lyndon