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Re: Bug#200864: muttprint: utf8 charset problems



On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> 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.

About the C stuff, some valuable informations are found into #175370.

[...]
> >  * Translation files in utf-8 in future.

Why?  There is no rationale reason for such a requirement.

> > 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 :)

Just two words:  Good Luck ;)
I am interested if you find a solution which works for perl 5.6 and 5.8.
Note also that Debian perl 5.8 contains a backported upstream change which
make it act as 5.8.1 will to avoid the silly behavior of 5.8.
See #164717 and http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2003/perl581-RC2.html

Denis



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