Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow: unable to convert character set of...

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Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
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>Now, the thing that David and I don't understand is ... what, exactly,
>is the problem with setting an UTF-8 locale?  I kind of thought you had
>to work to make that not happen, but maybe some systems don't make that
>the default.  If it's just generic grousing about how you didn't have
>to do that before ... okay, fine, I get that.  I wish we could make it
>so no one ever had to change anything to make nmh work every time a new
>version comes out (I know Jon Steinhart doesn't believe me, but it's
>true! :-) ). But the previous nmh behavior was so wrong we really didn't
>have much of a choice here.  If there is some reason you can't set the
>locale, we'd be intersted in hearing about it.  But seriously, if your
>terminal can handle UTF-8 fine, you _should_ have an UTF-8 locale set.

Under Linux, setting the Locale is tricky, because setting several different
environment variables effectively sets the Locale. I had that problem due to a
decade's old setting that I had long since forgotten. David Levine found the
problem. I could never have found it myself. To this day, I don't know the
reason for the ancient setting.

    Norman Shapiro