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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: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:37:56 +0100

 On 2006-12-08 16:15:05 +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
 >      No help, because $assumed_charset doesn't apply at all to this cas=
 e.
 >  We are in the proper MIME label but unknown by iconv case. By default
 >  Mutt does pass-thru display, no conversion.
 
 But before displaying, Mutt makes sure that the character is printable
 in the current locale, doesn't it? Otherwise this would be a security
 hole, as escape sequences may do nasty things.
 
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