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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6: character set checks and exmh compatibility

2016-10-17 20:03:45

On Oct 17, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:

I thought Laura's suggestion was to be able to put something like

locale: en_GB.utf8

into ~/.mh_profile, which seems eminently sensible to me.

Sigh.  I won't object if someone does this work ... but it's not something
I want to tackle, for the aforementioned reasons.  Note that it's not
completely straightforward, since a few programs (like post(8)) don't
read the profile.

What about an $NMH_LANG environment variable that the runtime could look for 
*very* early on, and use to seed $LANG.  Seems like minimal impact to the rest 
of the code that's locale aware.  Assuming that is all consolidated in the 
library routines.  Which I *think* we are ...

--lyndon


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