Re: UTF-8 tin

["T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>]

> 
> Hello, tin hackers, and utf-8 people. :) 
>  
> I have put together a small patch against tin which partially adds UTF-8 
> support. It needs a UTF-8 terminal atm, and depends upon a recent CVS 
> version libunicode (see http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html, 
> to get it) Actually, it only uses iconv from that, so it would be 
> easy to port to glibc2.1 or other systems with iconv(3). The dependency 
> upon a UTF-8 terminal should be trivial to fix, though. 

well, either you have a UTF-8 terminal, or you don't.
how would you 'fix' that?
  
> Features are : 
>  
>   * Will correctly display UTF-8 articles. 
>   * Will correctly display articles in other character sets that  
>     the iconv knows about, if they are Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 
>  
>     Right know, if articles are tagged as being in US-ASCII, or 
>     ISO-8859-1, (or untagged). it assumes they are in Windows-1252. This 
>     is due to the vast proliferation of broken Windows news clients. I am 
>     not sure whether this behaviour is desirable. 
>  
> Right now, however : 
>  
>   * there is no support for decoding multibyte characters sets. 
>   
>     I can't see how to do this without rewriting mm_decode. Ideas? 
>  
>   * base64 encoded articles aren't sent through the charset converter, 
>   * and i was observing some odd behaviour with quoted-printable articles. 
>  
>   * finally, there is no support for converting from raw 8bit characters  
>     in the header to UTF-8. I am uncertain of how to do this. Have you any 
>     thoughts? 
>  
>   * oh, and it doesn't convert character sets for quoted text, etc. 
>  
>    (anything I forgot?) 
>  
> It can be obtained from here : 
>  
>   http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rwb197/tin-utf.tar.gz 
>  
> Obviously this diff is in an unsuitable state to go into tin-devel right 
> now, but if it were finished, and preserved the existing behaviour on 
> systems without iconv, etc, would something like it be OK do go into tin? 

probably - I would make it a configure option or something like that.


-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
-
Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/