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>, bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: Re: mutt/2560: Mutt chokes on invalid charset in UTF environment
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:31:49 +0100
On 2006-11-21 16:48:49 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Even if that works, it doesn't mean someone won't at a later date use
> some encoding that somehow breaks iconv... I missed the beginning of
> the thread, so I apologize if I don't have a clear understanding of
> what the submitter is seeing, but it sounds like mutt is silently
> failing and just does nothing... Doesn't it seem reasonable that mutt
> should more gracefully handle failed conversions?
What is strange here is that Mutt displays non-ASCII characters
though the encoding is unknown and I don't have any charset-hook
or iconv-hook. Mutt doesn't freeze or crash, but the behavior is
incorrect.
Note that I have the attach_charset and assumed_charset patches.
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