Re: 0.9.8.1pl2 just gives an error when iconv fails

* Peter J Ross on Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 15:58:49 +0100:
> On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:36, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> Consider Message-ID: <[email protected]> at
>> news.software.readers -- the irony is that it was sent with an
>> older version of Slrn and can be displayed with older versions of
>> Slrn that don't use iconv.
> 
> I wondered what was causing that.
> 
> <...>
> 
> To view the article, this works for me:
> 
> #v+
> % macro show_raw.sl
> % show undecoded article in external pager
> define show_raw ()
> {
>        set_input_string ("/tmp/slrn_raw");
>        call ("save");
>        system ("less /tmp/slrn_raw && rm /tmp/slrn_raw");
> }
> definekey ("show_raw", "<F2>", "article");
> #v-
 
Hey, neat trick! Thanks.

Of course it's only a workaround, as one still can't followup to
such a post -- for instance to inform the poster that her/his
locale/charset is probably broken ;) 

c
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