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Re: mutt/2560: Mutt chokes on invalid charset in UTF environment



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2560; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mutt Developers <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mutt/2560: Mutt chokes on invalid charset in UTF environment
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:42:39 +0100

 On 2006-11-21 15:05:02 +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
 >  libiconv-1.10
 
 You should try 1.11 (this is what I'm using, from MacPorts).
 
 >  >  I don't know if it helps resolving the issue, but can you convert v=
 ia=20
 >  >  command line? What happens if you try to decode the mail like this:
 >  > =20
 >  >     iconv -f iso-8859-i -t utf-8 < ... > ...
 > =20
 >  iconv: conversion from iso-8859-i unsupported
 >  iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings
 
 Actually, the message contains:
 
 From: =3D?iso-8859-8-i?B?7unw+OXk?=3D <spar1492@xxxxxxxxx>
 
 and so on.
 
 >  So, is "iso-8859-i" a valid encoding, or a spammer's phantasy?
 
 iso-8859-8 exists, but iso-8859-8-i is a spammer's phantasy.
 
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