Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
Then, is not my original query:
I'm wondering if that message could give more detail. Perhaps, the
number of characters that can't be converted and, if there aren't too
many, their location and description?
meaningful?
Yes. Although ... personally,my gut feeling is that the character conversion
should silently substitute a replacement character, like pretty much every
other MUA out there.
What about mhshow allowing me to specify a filter ? Almost always, the 8 bit
characters are easily replaceable by 7 bit characters. If the filter fails,
then mhshow could do what it now does.
But there is not universal agreement on this. And
believe me, if you don't like long explanations, you DON'T want to get
in the middle of that.
ANSI_X3.4-1968
This means the character set you've indicated to the operating system that
you support is US-ASCII only, which explains why you're having a hard
time viewing anything with 8-bit characters.
I don't want to get into a huge tortured discussion about
internationaliation settings (because I know how you feel about that), but
I was under the impression that pretty much all versions of Linux nowadays
support all sorts of character sets. You might consider switching character
sets; it would make dealing with internationalized email much easier.
I don't know how to change locales. "man -k locale" does not suggest anything.
And if I did, I would not know what locale to change to:
'locale --all-locales' gives 735 options. 'locale --charmaps' gives 230
options.
Norman Shapiro
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