Re: Dangerous locale patch to 1.1.3

[email protected] 11 Oct 2002 10:45:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
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Camillo Särs <[email protected]> writes:

> "Strip down" wouldn't be the right thing.  But making ifile a bit
> more modular, with one module or library being what you describe
> would make sense.

Agreed; modularity is certainly good, but I'd still rather not have to
run N separate programs per message.

> ( However, Unicode is an example of an encoding that allows
> alternative forms for many characters.  The following example is not
> really "useful", but may illustrate my point.

Depending on how the usage of these alternative forms works out, this
may actually be a feature if it amplifies distinctions between senders
(or types of sender).

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