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A big disadvantage with TUI based email clients is it can only work with English or latin script based languages. Complex scripts(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by sthottingal 7y ago
A big disadvantage with TUI based email clients is it can only work with English or latin script based languages. Complex scripts(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout) does not render properly in terminals.
- Fnoord 7y agoThat might be a big disadvantage for you; it is a feature I don't miss at all. Mutt supports UTF-8, and that's all I need.
- _delirium 7y agoThis depends on the terminal. Konsole, mlterm, and Apple's Terminal.app can do complex text layout. Recent versions of Emacs support a modern text-shaping engine, Harfbuzz, when run in GUI mode, which is another option for emacs-based mail clients. I guess it's maybe not technically a TUI in this case, but emacs mail clients are still very TUI-like, even when run in non-terminal emacs.