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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:54:47 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: mutt and locale
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In-Reply-To: <000101c145fc$37b860f0$2101a8c0@nomad>; from tiberius@braemarinc.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:56:49PM -0500

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:56:49PM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I want to suggest to whoever is currently maintaining the mutt package
> > ;-)
> 
> That's me.  Well, it will be as soon as I get my new build to Corrina ;-).

                                                              s/rrin/rinn/

> > to compile it with --enable-locales-fix in the future. Since locale
> > support is broken in cygwin anyway (at least the LC_CTYPE part) it does
> > not make sense for mutt to rely on it. If it is compiled with the above
> > option it should at least work for people using iso-8859-1.
> >
> > And if full locale support really exists in cygwin then please educate
> > me how to set up my environment so that the isprint() function
> > recognizes characters > 127. I have exhausted all net.resources on this
> > topic and tried all suggested combinations but to no avail. I managed to
> > compile my own mutt and it now displays my German umlaut characters but
> > I trust you people more than myself. 8-]
> >
> 
> Unfortunately I know next to nothing about Cygwin's locale support or lack
> thereof.  The --enable-locales-fix is certainly easy enough to do though.
> Corrina/Chris/etc, what do you guys think?  Should I build with it before I
> submit it to you (hopefully this evening)?  Or is there actually proper
> locale support and this is actually some other problem?

I have no problems with --enable-locales-fix.  Go ahead.

Corinna

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