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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:28:54 +0100
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@...oden.eu>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: iconv failure (ISO-2022-JP) since musl update on
AlpineLinux
Hello Rich Felker.
Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
|On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 08:44:32PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Rich Felker wrote:
...
|> but i wrote:
|>||After updating to musl-1.1.19-r0 there i saw test failures for the
|>||MUA i maintain, namely regarding the mentioned charset. I will
..
|>|Does the data round-trip correctly? I don't think you can expect
|>
|> Ok, i see what you mean, yes, musl iconv(1) can roundtrip. But..
...
|> Well... In my cases the MUA fails to convert to ISO-2022-JP at
|> all, because an iconv(3) error happens. And when i instrument my
..
|I think the test is just using an output buffer that's under the
|worst-case size needed for conversion to ISO-2022-JP. The E2BIG error
|is specified for "Input conversion stopped due to lack of space in the
|output buffer" and is not really an error; is just means the
|conversion stopped before reaching the end and you need to resume with
|a new buffer for the remainder of the conversion.
That iconv(3) wrapper i had hacked into that MUA in 2014 was
indeed complete nonsense and entirely false. Now corrected.
Thanks for answering the brain damage.
And i will adjust the tests to checksum only the headers and the
roundtrip output of the body content, thanks for pointing this
out. Be aware you have been credited.
Ciao,
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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