>I take back back what I said, earlier about the default format that my editor >stored nmh bound files in. A few weeks, ago, I did change the default to >UTF-8. But as of, Dec 14 2012, for files whose names are all digits and are in >in my draft folder the default is overridden to ISO-8859-1. I don't know I why >did that.
Well, that would explains things perfectly! >Pending your instructions, I will not fix this problem. The two questions are >what should be the storage charset be for files destined for nmh and should be >the charset for other files. Nmh assumes that text you give to it is the character set of your locale; so if you have a UTF-8 locale, it assumes that the text you give it is UTF-8 and will mark it appropriately. Well, technically if the text is only ASCII then it will mark it as ASCII, but if there are any 8-bit characters it will then assume that it's in UTF-8. You can override this default with an mhbuild directive; if you were to put the following at the beginning of your text: #<text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 and "mime" the draft at the WhatNow prompt, it would label it as ISO-8859-1. But that would be a pain. So, what should your editor do? Well, since nmh thinks your character set is UTF-8 it would make the most sense to have your editor do that for nmh files. For your other files ... well, I guess that depends on what you want to do. My personal feeling is that the world seems to be migrating to UTF-8 as a default, and unless there is a reason you cannot handle UTF-8 then that's the way you should go. If you've changed your locale to UTF-8 you've already told the traditional Unix utilities that's what you're using. >> How did you get the saved text from the saved editor file into nmh? > >I typed "s\n" into "whatnow". As will do, in a moment, after storing as UTF-8. I was more thinking about what happened before that; I guess your default editor that gets invoked by repl is norms-cool-editor? --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers