Re: [Build 69] Internal Error in slrn_convert_substring

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:12:13PM -0500, John E. Davis wrote:

[...]

> The problem is the "From:" header, which is encoded as:
> 
>   <[email protected]=?=>
> 
> As the "x-user-defined" character set is meaningless, converting it to
> the display character set will fail.  The "internal error" was
> generated because the base64 decoded bytes contained a null ('\0')
> byte, which, as far as I know, is illegal in a header.  slrn was not
> expecting this and generated an internal error.  The latest
> development snapshot detects this and converts the null byte to '?',
> avoiding the internal error.
> 
> Hopefully this resolves the problem.

Thanks again for the swift response John. The two rogue messages:

<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>

now generate an error message:

Can't convert x-user-defined -> UTF-8

This is on entering the group with the messages, and on entering the
messages themselves. This is with:

andrew@ilium~$ slrn --version
slrn pre0.9.9-73
        * Note: This version is a developer preview.
S-Lang Library Version: 2.0.7
Compiled at: Dec 19 2007 15:53:46
Operating System: Linux

 All the best,

   Andrew (Strong)

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