I believe that nmh users are sophisticated enough that they actually
know what a Locale is, and an encoding, and if they google for more
information they will understand what they read. I think that they
are going to want a way to specify what they want in their mh_profile
though.
Weeeelll ... my reluctance there is I don't want to duplicate Unix
functionality without a very good reason. And Unix already umpteen
ways to do this; you could wrap all of the nmh commands with aliases
or shell wrappers, for one. It just feels unnecessary.
We have a terminal room with shared workstations that all have a
very restricted number of Mathematica licenses. I haven't been there
for a few years, but it used to be the case that Mathematica wanted
LC_ALL=C which had the result that people couldn't send mail from
those terminals using some of their favourite mailers, and moreover
had absolutely no clue as to what was wrong.
Really? Way to blow it, Wolfram!
One thing I do not
know is how common it is, these days, for people to share computers.
A long time ago it was common. Then it became uncommon, as everybody
used their own personal laptop. These days, at least around here, there
is a sizable segment of the population which doesn't own anything
larger than a cell phone or a tablet, so the demand is on, again
for shared spaces.
We have a very different environment, which is not surprising. For
stuff like email, everyone has their own workstation. For higher-power
computing, there are a few centralized systems; email works on those
systems, but it's generally not used.
--Ken
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