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What’s the best way of extending Mail.app with GPG functionalities?

Google gave me too many answers..

...so awkward! Took me a full hour to get used to the movement (or the weird acceleration?) of my external Logitech mouse.

Fortunately, Google told me I’m not the only one with this opinion, and pointed me a bunch of hacks :-)

PS – Created offline and posted using MarsEdit trial. Not bad… still missing tags…

This will be the first of many articles about why mac os sucks for the everyday developer work…

I’m mainly working with Perl now, and I started to have problems as soon as I went to mac os. The modules I was used to work with started to fail on mac os. After some digging I found that every failure was related with some string format problem.

For example, I discovered that this expression sprintf '%f' 0.3 gives you the string 0,300000 and not the “expected” 0.300000. You can’t imagine how this thing breaks some Perl modules…

Then I realized that my locale settings were defined to C. Clearly that could be a problem. Google helped me a bit, and I found this website that has instructions on how to prepare your mac os to the correct locale and unicode settings.

A little bit of hacking later (I set my new locale to en_US.UTF-8), a new bash from macports, and sprintf started to behave “correctly”, and Perl modules no longer complain :-) Great success!