Re: [Build 69] Internal Error in slrn_convert_substring

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 11:34:34 Christian Ebert wrote:
> * John E. Davis on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 01:57:15 -0500
>
> > Andrew Strong <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Unfortunately, in this case there is not much more that can be done.
> > The message contains headers encoded in a character set called
> > x-user-defined, which cannot be decoded without knowing what it really
> > is.
>
> Thomas Wiegner's fallback charset patch
> <http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/> would probably help in this case.

A version of the patch is included in pre0.9.9. It works on bodies, not 
headers.

-- 
PJR :-)

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