Hi Andy,
To recap, the previous mailing-list discussion was around
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2018-01/msg00130.html
and
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2018-01/msg00126.html
The former's suggestion, with correction, got committed as 695ed941.
if [ $iconv_elides_question_marks -eq 1 ]; then
check "$expected" "$actual"
else
grep "Can't convert .*us-ascii to UTF-8" "$actual" >/dev/null ||
failed=1
fi
It enters the else because iconv_elides_question_marks was previously
set to 0 and never altered thereafter.
That's this early part. Does it attempt the printf? If so,
$ICONV_ENABLED isn't 0, and iconv(1) quite reasonably disliked
converting from `?UTF-8'.
iconv_elides_question_marks=0
if test "$ICONV_ENABLED" -eq 0; then
text_size=10
else
text_size=11
#### The GNU iconv library normalises charset names by eliding '?',
along
#### with some other characters. The iconv library used on
FreeBSD/NetBSD
#### doesn't.
printf x | iconv -f '?UTF-8' -t UTF-8 >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
iconv_elides_question_marks=1
fi
So, why does it expect an error in $actual under these conditions?
...
$ cat $MHTMPDIR/inbox/$msgnum
Subject: invalid parameter value charset
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset*=invalid''%0Dus-ascii
It expects an error because the charset is invalid. The parameter's
value is in the `invalid' character set, with no specified language, and
it is a carriage return followed by `us-ascii'.
Because iconv_elides_question_marks is 0 it's expected that iconv will
choke on the parameter, giving an error message to be found by the grep.
$ env | grep LC
(locale(1) is a better test because there's $LANG too.)
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Cheers, Ralph.
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