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Re: Bug#200864: muttprint: utf8 charset problems



Hi Bernhard,

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Current plans are:
> 
>  * Changing the charset "API" of Muttprint: no configuration variables
>    any more but dependence on the locale environment. It seems that I
>    need a small C program for this purpose. 
>    I need a way to find out the currenct charset. The only way I've
>    found is I18N::Langinfo (which is not available for perl 5.6). The
>    other way is to write a small C program which uses nl_langinfo().
>    Using 'locale charmap' is not portable enogh in my opinion.

ugh.
this would make it a package which has to be compiled on all archs :(
Isn't is possible to use the C stuff when using perl 5.6 and otherwise
I18N::Langinfo?

>  * Converting input and output with the Text::Iconv module. It seems to
>    be good and available on much systems.
>   
>  * Representings strings internally in utf-8.
> 
>  * Translation files in utf-8 in future.
> 
> I plan to release a test version in one week. If somebody reads this bug
> report and has a deep knowlege of Perl and utf-8, mail me. :-)

I'm CC'ing to debian-perl, maybe they know :)

Grüße/Regards,

René
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