Composing in utf8 from latin1 terminal

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:11:52AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
> > When I use emacsclient, the interface locale is not broken: the terminal
> > I/O encoding is correctly set from the locale. The only difference (that
> > I know of) is that Emacs will use utf8 to read/write files. If this
> > should match the terminal encoding, then it *is* broken.

Also, depending on exactly why you're doing this multi-locale stuff,
an even better solution may be to let Mutt's send_charset handle it
for you.  If set properly, you should be able to compose your messages
in UTF-8, and as long as you don't use any non-latin1 characters,
send_charset *should* make sure the message goes out encoded as
latin1.

The biggest drawback to this approach is you have to be very careful
to not use any non-latin1 characters, or else the message will be sent
as unicode.  Otherwise, you'd need to check every message before you
send it to make sure Mutt will send it as the desired encoding.  I
have a vague notion that certain other message transforms, like PGP,
may also interfere with this, but I'm not 100% sure.

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