Good evening.
Ken Hornstein wrote in
<20210615025348(_dot_)83822125180(_at_)pb-smtp20(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com>:
|>kre was coming from a "per draft source character set" i think.
|>But of course, application dependent. It is more general than "i
|>really need this now to get nmh (or mailx) going". When i went
|>online around 2010 there was a Python member (Murray, who did the
|>rewrite of the Python mail engine) who was (or is) an nmh user, as
|>he said. I looked at nmh but i think it could not even do MIME by then?
|
|It depends on what you mean. nmh, back when it was MH, could do MIME,
|but the support was ... not wonderful, if you wanted to deal with modern
|messages. It is better now.
|
|>But even with only columns there are problems, like bidi.
|
|In one sense, we kinda don't have to deal with this because we just feed
|our output into a pager. Probably in theory we could do better, but we
|have a ways to go until our MIME support is good enough to deal.
|
|>For serialization you are surely right. This imposes a conversion
|>back and forth to wchar_t with POSIX interface, then. And you
|>have already lost the performance battle.
|
|Are you running on super slow machines? I can't really imagine that
|really impacting performance in any measurable way.
We turn in circles, and obviously off-topic for the nmh list.
|>So UTF-8 pretties up stuff for an all-american or all-english view.
|
|Well, guilty on both counts, but I think if you're concerned about size
|then it probably is more compact for most European languages as well.
Well it is cool, it would be nice if it would have been adopted
more widely shortly after it was invented. C90 Amendment 1 would
have been great, as Plan9 shows. Despite that the number is
a minority by very far, and in the 60s an african bishop said "by
the year 2700 the white man will have destroyed live on earth",
and i believed him already when i was young.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)