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: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:20:10 +0100
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,
>=20
> Actually you have a very clear understanding of what you missed
> ;)
>=20
> I am seeing a freeze. The only way out is to Ctrl-Z to force
> quit.
>=20
> > but it sounds like mutt is silently failing and just does
> > nothing...=20
>=20
> Exactly.
But if the freeze occurs in libiconv, Mutt can't do anything.
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