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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character s
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set |
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Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:26:12 -0400 |
ken wrote:
> >That problem space lives well outside of nmh. The people to rightly fix
> >it are the xterm authors, and people writing keyboard drivers. These
> >conversion layers belong inside the terminal I/O drivers, where they
> >can fix the problem for everything.
>
> The people who at least have spoken up on this list in the past have not,
> AFAIK, lacked the technical ability to run in an UTF-8 locale; there's
> no work on xterm or terminal drivers that is necessary; that's all been
> done a long time ago. They have just chosen not to, e.g.:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-01/msg00206.html
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-01/msg00203.html
>
> As Earl Hood pointed out: Character encoding choices can get quite political.
>
> I confess that I am surprised the "UTF-8 or die" crowd has been so unaminous
> so far. No one dissents from this view? Like I said, it simplifies a WHOLE
> bunch of code (at the cost of adding a new library dependency), so I would
> actually be fine with it.
i don't think the current respondents represent a very wide demographic.
paul
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Jon Steinhart, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Paul Fox, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set,
Paul Fox <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, norm, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/20
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Paul Vixie, 2015/08/11