Re: pine & japanese

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:49:54 +0100 (CET)
>> From: Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>
>> 
>> Oh well, I guess I'll have to go with mutt then...
>> And there I was just getting used to pine ^_^

Has mutt improved any with Japanese? I looked closely at mutt about a
year ago when the old "mush" I used collapsed with a Y2K problem. Mutt
turned out to be incapable of handling ISO-2022 properly and insisted on
whacking "US-ASCII" and "ISO-8859-1" in MIME headers. I stirred things
on their newsgroup and eventually got a rather hacky patch that
partially fixed things, but the developers said the whole multi-lingual
handling needed a rework, as it was turning into patch-upon-patch.

Has it been fixed? Is it worth revisiting when I return to Oz?

Jim
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