[Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

[Jon Ribbens]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 05:21:08PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:06:49 -0500
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> > It seems that all checkin mails are utf-8-encoded.  This makes it
> > challenging to view checkin mails if you have a text-based mail reader.  (I
> > use VM within XEmacs.  XEmacs doesn't seem to support utf-8 out of the box.
> > I believe you need to add MULE to it.)
> 
> Hmm, are you sure? Software (especially mail-reading software) that
> doesn't support utf-8 in 2011 should be considered extremely broken.
> 
> (I understand you may be a native English speaker, but do you never
> receive non-ASCII utf-8 e-mail at all? doesn't it get displayed
> properly?)

In my experience it is very difficult to get a whole system
configured, such that UTF-8 works reliably. In my case that would
mean, I think, Linux, glibc, mutt, screen, elinks, and SecureCRT would
all have to simultaneously be configured precisely correctly in order
to get it to work. I have certainly never managed it, anyway.

Mind you, I've never managed to get the <-- button working reliably
either, but to be fair that's insanely complicated too.