Issue 12454: mailbox: use ASCII to read/write .mh_sequences files (original) (raw)

The MH class uses the locale encoding to read and write .mh_sequences files. According to R. David Murray, ASCII can be safetly used instead. Extract of our discussion on IRC:

bitdancer> haypo: that's one of the cases where using locale is probably correct, even though I'd rather it used utf-8. bitdancer> haypo: for nmh it is ASCII, for whatever that is worth. bitdancer> I base this on the fact that the pick command says that a utf-8 character is invalid. bitdancer> for a sequence name. bitdancer> Which is the only thing other than numbers that goes in a sequences files. Jerub> I concurr (was reading code)