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Re: [Nmh-workers] Second release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] Second release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:38:32 -0400

>> Another thought:  it'd be nice if the test suite could optionally use
>> ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.  Even better, the tests that care could
>> do both.  That would have caught this problem.
>
>Rather than have the test author decide if it should do both, and be
>prone to human error, could the whole suite not be run for multiple
>ones, including an unusual little-used one?

At least the tests I've worked on have to be carefully crafted to handle
a particular character set conversion (and to deal with the expected
output).  I don't see how we can make a set of tests that convert
between two arbitrary character sets.

--Ken



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