Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore
On May 02, Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl> wrote:
>Well, (as I wrote), mutt's manual.txt says that the charset setting is
>used for that.
This is your interpretation of the manual.
>> >So what's the point of the charset setting? After all, the manual.txt
>> It tells mutt about which charaset you are typing.
>
>The exact quote from the docs is:
>
> Character set your terminal uses to display and enter textual data.
>
>Note the "display" in addition to "enter". So not only:
>
>> It tells mutt about which charaset you are typing.
>
>but also what can be displayed.
Do you know any terminal type for which this is not the same?
I agree it may be confusing, if you can think of a better wording please
submit a patch to mutt-dev@mutt.org.
>(*) I really hate it when people close bugs with a one-liner (or less)
>answer, without any substantiating motivation. Especially when parts of
That's fair. I have when people keep reporting this as a bug even after
it has been discussed many times in many other bug reports.
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ciao,
Marco
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