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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:47:48 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] simplicity
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> 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