Bug#509582: still puszed how a non maintainer handled the criticity while not responding to problem

[Eric Valette]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008 à 10:24 +0100, Eric Valette a écrit :
>   
>> 2 r-ptxp-ceva6380:~->mkdir /tmp/toto
>> 3 r-ptxp-ceva6380:~->cd /tmp/toto
>> 4 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/tmp/toto->echo "text" >> AA1-XxxxxXxxxxxxxé
>> 5 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/tmp/toto->export LANG=fr_FR.utf8
>> 6 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/tmp/toto->icedove
>>
>> /usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  7216 Aborted                
>> "$prog" ${1+"$@"}    <<<< Crash
>>     
>
> The specific issue in UTF8 encoding looks specific to Moldzilla. You can
> check the behavior of the file selector itself with "zenity
> --file-selection", which doesn’t crash when you use the UTF8 encoding.
> Which means icedove passes an invalid UTF8 string to a function that
> expects valid UTF8, while e.g. gedit or zenity don’t.
>
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