Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's\r
+       locale\r
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+References: <cover.1392056624.git.wking@tremily.us>\r
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+Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
+>\r
+> I don't understand why your choice of LANG should depend on the\r
+> interactive-ness of an invocation.\r
+\r
+It's not the choice of LANG, but rather the acceptability of crashing\r
+with an unhandled exception.\r
+\r
+>  The upside of a configurable language is that the user gets output in\r
+> their preferred encoding (UTF-8 or not) and=E2=80=94with a bit of additio=\r
+nal\r
+> gettext work=E2=80=94in their preferred language.  That sounds like a fair\r
+> trade to me.\r
+\r
+The downside is that it introduces another error condition into the\r
+script. The data from notmuch is unicode; conversion to most non-utf8\r
+locales is lossy and can cause crashes. That's why I don't like the\r
+idea of enabling it without some explicit option or configuration\r
+choice.\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r
+P.S. I just saw your other reply, and yeah, a rebased version of the\r
+other 6 patches would be welcome.\r