On Thu, Jul 29 2010, Christian Ebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Searching for non-ascii words is bound to fail in most cases,
> e.g. in an utf-8 environment (query in utf-8, target messages
> mostly e.g. in iso-8859-1).
>
> Any chances that this will be implemented?
I'm not much of a programmer, but I would love to see this (to me)
essential addition made to an otherwise beautiful program, and will
happily mail a bottle of finest Chinese grain liquor to anyone who can
manage it.
>
> For the time being and the benefit of others in the same
> situation, here's my workaround:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> threads=
> augment=
> charset="`printf $LANG | cut -d . -f 2`"
> fallback="windows-1252"
>
> yorn() {
> local ans
> printf '%s %s ' "$1" "(yes/[no])"
> read -e ans
> case "$ans" in
> y*|Y*) return 0;;
> *) return 1;;
> esac
> }
>
> printf '%s\n' "Enter mairix query:"
> read -e query
> test -z "$query" && exit 0
>
> yorn "Retrieve thread(s)?" && threads="--threads"
> yorn "Append message(s) to mfolder?" && augment="--augment"
>
> mairix $threads $augment "$query"
>
> queryx=`echo "$query" | iconv -f "$charset" -t "$fallback"`
>
> if [ "$queryx" != "$query" ]; then
> echo "trying $fallback"
> mairix $threads --augment "$queryx"
> fi
>
>
> For me the default fallback is enough in most cases, but it could
> be made interactive as well.
>
> Ideas, suggestions for improvement welcome of course.
>
> c
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