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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] simplicity
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:47:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93f0c277a08558ae9a239989d1755da4@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010073625.BFCD32F83@okapi.maths.tcd.ie>

> My most annoying locale problem concerned reading Czech HTML emails in
> mh.  Don't ask why, just accept that I got a lot of these and could not
> simply ignore them.  The problem was that mh saw a text/html MIME type
> and, as it does for text, helpfully converted from the original encoding,
> usually CP1250 or iso8859-2, [...]

i think this is a character set conversion problem, not a locale
problem.  a small distinction, but i think one can live with converting
character sets as they come onto a system.  localized (ha!) complexity.

- erik


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10  7:36 John Stalker
2007-10-10  8:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-10 11:47 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-10-10 14:05   ` John Stalker
2007-10-10 14:29     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-10 15:26       ` John Stalker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-16 18:55 Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-16 20:42 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-09-16 21:24   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-17 15:22     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-16 20:43 ` roger peppe
2007-09-16 20:53   ` Steve Simon
2007-09-17 15:22     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-17 20:00   ` Scott Schwartz
2007-09-17  3:23 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-17 15:22   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-17 15:55     ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-18  8:38       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-18 10:45         ` dave.l
2007-09-18 14:44           ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-18 15:41             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-18 21:34               ` Iruata Souza
2007-10-10  3:30         ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-10  4:02           ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-10  6:17             ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-10 12:22               ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-18 15:27     ` Rob Pike
2007-09-18 15:38       ` Uriel
2007-09-19  8:50         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-19 11:51           ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-19 15:02             ` Russ Cox
2007-09-19 14:17           ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-19 14:21           ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-19 15:32           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-09 20:08         ` Aharon Robbins
2007-10-09 21:08           ` Uriel
2007-10-10  5:33         ` sqweek
2007-10-10 11:49           ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-17 14:52 ` ron minnich
2007-09-17 14:53 ` ron minnich

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