From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24039 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2003 23:21:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24031 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2003 23:21:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns0.scripps.edu) (192.42.82.58) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2003 23:21:26 -0000 Received: from antigen.scripps.edu (antigen.scripps.edu [137.131.200.100]) by ns0.scripps.edu (8.11.7/TSRI-4.2rx) with SMTP id h8LNLPO18219 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay1.scripps.edu(137.131.200.29) by antigen.scripps.edu via csmap id 12126; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gamow.scripps.edu (gamow [137.131.252.67]) by relay1.scripps.edu (8.11.7/TSRI-4.4.1rAVB) with ESMTP id h8LNKdI05115; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quine.scripps.edu (gamow [137.131.252.67]) by gamow.scripps.edu (8.9.2/TSRI-3.0.1) with SMTP id QAA80164; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by quine.scripps.edu (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:22:32 -0700 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:24:00 -0000 From: "David A. Case" To: Tony Arnold Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mutt and 8 bit characters Message-ID: <20030921232229.GA3160@scripps.edu> References: <20030921215411.GA3396@marvin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030921215411.GA3396@marvin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01377.txt.bz2 On Sun, Sep 21, 2003, Tony Arnold wrote: > I've seen references to this problem in the mailing list archives, but not a > suggestion for a work around or hint of a fix being on its way. The problem > is that if I try to reply to a message with 8 bit characters (e.g., UK > currency symbol, accented characters) then mutt crashes with a message about > BUGGY_ICONV. > I know of two workarounds: (1) revert to version 1.8xx of libiconv; (2) grab the mutt sources and re-compile/re-link against the current version of libiconv. Path (2) has worked for me; I used path (1) for a while, but it is likely that other things that depend upon libiconv would become broken, so this is likely to be a less-good solution. ..good luck...dac -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/