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: Christian Ebert <blacktrash@xxxxxxx>
To: Mutt Developers <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mutt/2560: Mutt chokes on invalid charset in UTF environment
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:15:12 +0100
* Thomas Roessler on Thursday, December 07, 2006 at 08:15:02 +0100:
> On 2006-12-07 08:05:02 +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> Be that as it may, I stumbled accross another evil example ;-):
>> my old iconv has no trouble with attached message, whereas Mutt
>> freezes and, again, I have to exit with signal 3 (<C-Z>). No fun
>> to isolate the message in question in a big mailbox, I can tell
>> you.
>
> FWIW, no hang on a Linux system.
FWIW, it's not a terminal problem, as the same thing happens in
AppleTerminal and Xterm.
I imagine this is rather offputting for someone who wants to try
out Mutt, and is not a fanatic yet ;-)
c