Re: balsa-0.9.5 released

[Jules Bean <jules blueberry jellybean co uk>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:27:56AM +0200, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2000-09-20 10:11:47 Jules Bean wrote:
> > Yes, this is a common pattern -- most people who don't always write in
> > English write occasionally in at least two languages.  Could balsa have a
> > menu in the 'compose' window for changing the language of the current
> > mail?
> 
> I have impression that the best thing is to change the charset selection to
> language selection (That would also control the charset selection). This
> would also in principle solve the gdk_font_load/gdk_fontset_load problem.
> gdk_fontset_load cannot be used for single-byte charsets because it uses in
> such a case current locale setting to determine the charset (the values
> specified in XLFD is ignored).
> 
> as I see it now, we should replace the charset selection ('ISO charset' has
> BTW become misleading since KOI charsets are included as well) with
> language selection, and gtk_font_load with gtk_fonset_load in file
> src/sendmsg-window.c (Browsing code would require some extra thinking, but
> this is not relevant for the moment). Language selection would call
> setlocale().

This sounds sensible to me.  What about multi-language emails? Would that be
done by MIME-multipart?

Jules