Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:02:09 -0400

"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> 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

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W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 00/20] nmbug-status: Python-3-compatibility and general refactoring [inbox, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 01/20] nmbug-status: Convert to Python-3-compatible print functions [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::portability, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 02/20] nmbug-status: Use email.utils instead of rfc822 [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::portability, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 03/20] nmbug-status: Decode Popen output using the user's locale [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 04/20] nmbug-status: Factor config-loading out into read_config [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 05/20] nmbug-status: Add metavars for --config and --get-query [inbox, notmuch::doc, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 06/20] nmbug-status: Consolidate functions and main code [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 07/20] nmbug-status: Don't require write access [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 08/20] nmbug-status: Consolidate HTML header printing [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 09/20] nmbug-status: Add a Python-3-compatible urllib.parse.quote import [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::portability, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 10/20] nmbug-status: Add Page and HtmlPage for modular rendering [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 11/20] nmbug-status: Add an OrderedDict stub for Python 2.6 [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::portability, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 12/20] nmbug-status: Normalize table HTML indentation [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 13/20] nmbug-status: Convert from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5 [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
  - David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v2 13/20] nmbug-status: Convert from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5 [inbox, unread]
    - W. Trevor King—Re: [PATCH v2 13/20] nmbug-status: Convert from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5 [inbox, signed, unread]
      - Tomi Ollila—Re: [PATCH v2 13/20] nmbug-status: Convert from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5 [inbox, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, notmuch::portability, unread]
  - David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, unread]
    - Tomi Ollila—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, unread]
      - W. Trevor King—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, signed, unread]
        David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, unread]
        W. Trevor King—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, signed, unread]
        David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, unread]
        W. Trevor King—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, signed, unread]
        David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] nmbug-status: Encode output using the user's locale [inbox, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 15/20] nmbug-status: Anchor with h3 ids instead of a names [inbox, notmuch::fix, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 16/20] nmbug-status: Slug the title when using it as an id [inbox, notmuch::fix, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 17/20] nmbug-status: Use <code> and <p> markup where appropriate [inbox, notmuch::feature, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 18/20] nmbug-status: Color threads in HTML output [inbox, notmuch::feature, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 19/20] nmbug-status: Escape &, <, and > in HTML display data [inbox, notmuch::fix, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- W. Trevor King—[PATCH v2 20/20] nmbug-status: Add inter-message padding [inbox, notmuch::feature, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- Tomi Ollila—Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] nmbug-status: Python-3-compatibility and general refactoring [inbox, unread]