Re: [Nmh-workers] show's checkmime

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:43:48 GMT, Ralph Corderoy said:
>
> > Seems sane, except for one little detail.  There's the corner case
> > where (for instance) the $LANG is set to something like fr_FR.UTF-8
> > (which means that the system understands UTF-8, but it's quite
> > possible that for actual display, we can't be sure that we have all
> > UTF-8 codeplanes available.  Such a user may have done 'export
> > MM_CHARSET="$LANG";', so we might want to check if UTF-8 is found
> > anywhere in the string:
> > 
> > +   if (!strncasecmp("ISO-8859-", mm_charset, 9) ||
> > +           strstr(mm_charset,"UTF-8")) {
> > 
> > What do people think?
> 
> I'd be wary of the original patch matching `UTF-8080' and this matching
> `CRUTF-8'.  If that can't happen and any occurance of `UTF-8' must be
> referring to UTF-8 then that's not a problem but I don't have required
> knowledge.

A user could, of course, set MM_CHARSET to some bogus value.  But I've never
encountered a language, charset, or font specification where the substring
"UTF-8" didn't in fact mean a UTF-8....

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