From: David Bremner Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:02:09 +0000 (+2000) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf44ba87352ec451d1ea681834deec0824c78382;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale --- diff --git a/a8/db5e10e8388dd9faaa7da326a316078742ba62 b/a8/db5e10e8388dd9faaa7da326a316078742ba62 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ca4c3d8c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/a8/db5e10e8388dd9faaa7da326a316078742ba62 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A420431FBF + for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:02:24 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id evGndpGrejVF for ; + Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:02:18 -0800 (PST) +Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E56D431FBD + for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:02:18 -0800 (PST) +Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1WDLPC-0005e2-39; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:02:14 -0400 +Received: (nullmailer pid 31592 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 + 22:02:09 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: "W. Trevor King" , Tomi Ollila +Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's + locale +In-Reply-To: <20140211201135.GJ14197@odin.tremily.us> +References: + + <87eh396e6e.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <20140211201135.GJ14197@odin.tremily.us> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+53~g3e1d7f6 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:02:09 -0400 +Message-ID: <8761ol5mvy.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:02:24 -0000 + +"W. Trevor King" writes: + +> +> If a user has set LANG=C, I expect that's what we should use for +> output (in which case dying with an encoding error is the right thing +> to do). +> + +Perhaps for an interactive tool, intended mainly to be run in a +terminal. But nmbug-status is not such a tool (at least, that was not +why I wrote it). It's run non-interactively in a git hook to generate a +web page. + +I'm not sure how important the interactive use case is, but I don't want +to make nmbug-status less robust in order to conform to some abstract +ideal. + +One approach would be to enable certain "interactive" features via a +command line argument. + +d + +