Re: How to fix RE error?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 07:32:27PM +0100, Urs Jan?en wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK, excellent, all I needed to know, thank you!


> > 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
> 
! :-)   Why just Polish?

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Chris Green