Re: How to fix RE error?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:59:23PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I have moved from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and now when I start tin it's
> complaining about an invalid character in the following RE :-
> 
>     strip_was_regex=.\(([Ww]a[rs]|[Bb]y[l³]o):.*\)\s*$

unfortunately tin doesn't store (and/or convert) it's config-files in the
current locale (that is on the TODO-list for ages) but assumes ISO-8859-X
(which was ok in pre UTF-8 dates). as you are running now in a UTF-8 env,
but the config file is still in ISO-8859-X you need to either convert the
file to UTF-8 (cp ~/.tin/tinrc ~/.tin/tinrc.bak ; iconv -f ISO-8859-2 -t
UTF-8 ~/.tin/tinrc > ~/.tin/tinrc.uf8 && mv ~/.tin/tinrc.uf8 ~/.tin/tinrc)
or just remove the offending char/part.

> Do I need to rebuild tin in the new environment or what?

no

> It's that '³' that's causing the problem I think, what should it
> really be?...    Am I seeing Polish in that RE, searching for Bylo
> with a line through the l?

yes

urs
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