Re: two bugs involving certain spam

Bert Driehuis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Bert Driehuis dixit:
>
>> That string "1;2c" is part of an ANSI reply (it is consistent with your
>> terminal answering "ESC[?1;2c" to an ESC[0c request). Pine should not pass any
>
> Actually, "ESC [" is also available as "CSI" (a C1 control
> character). This is why UTF-8 terminals are more robust - if
> you want it to receive CSI (U+009B), you must encode it...

Interesting... I was wondering what UTF-8 would do with those combined 
escapes (and I had no clue they had a name :-)

>> $a = "\233c";
>
> Yep, that's CSI.
>
> But isn't there a menu point "pass C1 control characters as is"
> in the configuration, which you can set to off?

Probably, but that's a workaround at best. Pine should vet what spammers 
get to send to my xterm.

Note that this is the same issue that causes Subject lines with tabs to 
cause display oddities.
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