Geez, how much hand-waving do you want a guy to do? :-)
Well, if you're writing the code you can do all of the handwaving you want! :-0
Assuming we don't bring in a library like ICU,
GNU's libunistring might be an alternative to ICU.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/
Hm, I just looked at it; it's not terrible, is it? What do people think
about creating a dependency on this library? I'm not sure how mature it is,
though.
- Even if we used xlocale (or just overrode the global locale in every
nmh program) it turns out there's not a reliable UTF-8 compatible
default we can use; we ran into this in the test suite, some people
just don't install all of the locales, so we can't assume en_US.UTF-8
(or en_GB.UTF-8, or whatever).
That wouldn't matter if we stopped on a non-UTF-8 locale?
If we want to do that then that is an option, but we do have users that
by choice use non-UTF-8 locales.
--Ken
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