mutt and 8 bit characters

mutt and 8 bit characters

[Tony Arnold]

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.

The exact error message is:

Including quoted message...assertion "errno == E2BIG || (BUGGY_ICONV &&
(errno == EILSEQ || errno == ENOENT))" failed: file
"../mutt-1.4-1/sendlib.c", line 743
                                                                               Aborted
(core dumped)

I'm running on XP Professional with all the latest versiosn of Cygwin
packages.

Has anyone had a chance to investigate this problem? Are there any settings
in muttrc or anywhere else that might allow me to work around the problem?

Any help or suggestions much appreciated. Please cc me on any replies as I
am not on the mailing list.

Regards,
Tony.
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Re: mutt and 8 bit characters

[David A. Case]

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


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RE: mutt and 8 bit characters

[Tony Arnold]

David,

> 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.

Thanks for the tip. I recompiled mutt from the source you get from the
Cygwin setup utility. It's certainly stopped it from crashing on 8 bit
characters, but they are no longer displayed correctly! They get displayed
at question marks. Is that your experience too? Or is it my terminal
settings? I use rxvt.

Regards,
Tony.
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University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
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Re: mutt and 8 bit characters

[David Breach]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> 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.

> Has anyone had a chance to investigate this problem? Are there any settings
> in muttrc or anywhere else that might allow me to work around the problem?

I had the same thing with Mutt 1.4i - upgrading to 1.5.4 fixed it, and
Mutt is now working perfectly again ;-)

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