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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