[1287] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: Zephyr charset-aware patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Hutzelman)
Thu Oct 29 18:14:59 2009
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:04:42 -0500
From: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
To: Keith Winstein <keithw@MIT.EDU>
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--On Tuesday, February 03, 2009 05:41:04 PM -0500 Keith Winstein
<keithw@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> In return, Jeff, would you please try this somewhere at CMU and give us
> some bug reports outside of the MIT environment? I think it would be
> helpful to hear that/if it works outside of our conventions. (It will
> take some work to get this working on Solaris with GNU libiconv.)
I can certainly make it available, and use it myself, but I don't know how
useful that will be. I run barnowl in a UTF-8 locale, so I don't expect
much difference in behavior.
As for local conventions, I don't know about the rest of CMU, but here in
CS the local convention has been Latin-1 for quite a long time, though use
of non-ASCII is mostly playful in nature. The local zephyr crowd (on -c
message) is almost entirely cruft, and I don't know how they'll react to a
suggestion that the zephyr charset should change to UTF-8. For all I know,
they've already agreed to do that. I can ask.
-- Jeff
