#2990: mutt-1.5.16: utf-8 support broken somewhere between 1.5.13 and 1.5.16
Comment (by Sven Utcke):
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Hello Alain,
> > It could still be interesting to investigate what exactly triggers
the
> > behaviour in the assumed charset code...
>
> It's not related to $assumed_charset at all, but to the
> msyk.iconvhook.1 bugs fixing patch by Masayuki Moriyama applied on
> 2007-03-06. Before this bugfix, iconv-hooks were nearly never
> functionning. Msyk made iconv-hooks actually work.
>
> As you noticed, Sven's muttrc contained 3 harmfull iconv-hooks.
> Those were not triggered before, but began working and thus hurting
> after 2007-03-06.
Makes sense. On the Zaurus (pdaXrom) I had to disable even more
iconv-hooks (different glibc or libiconv, no doubt).
> Sven: Under Linux, Glibc, or anything using libiconv, iconv-hooks
> are not required. Under Solaris without libiconv, perhaps;
That's why I originally put them in (utf-8 didn't work without on
Solaris 8, or maybe it was SunOS 5.6).
> But then the regexp should be the stricter ^iso-8859-1$ to avoid
> unwantedly matching iso-8859-15.
Thanks!
Sven
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