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



On 2006-11-22 08:28:16 +0000, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Derek Martin on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 00:15:03 +0100:
> > 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,
> 
> Actually you have a very clear understanding of what you missed
> ;)
> 
> I am seeing a freeze. The only way out is to Ctrl-Z to force
> quit.
> 
> > but it sounds like mutt is silently failing and just does
> > nothing... 
> 
> Exactly.

But if the freeze occurs in libiconv, Mutt can't do anything.

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