UTF-8 Errors

[Darian Rafie]

Following up on the UTF-8 errors.  It's a bug in Perl, which is supposed
to be fixed in 5.8 (not yet released).  However the latest CVS version
of SpamAssassin has a work around and will be available in the next
stable release.

D.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Darian Rafie
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:08 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Errors


Thanks Julian ... will do.

d.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Errors


> These UTF-8 bugs are problems in SpamAssassin. Please report it to
them.
>
> At 19:53 21/05/2002, you wrote:
> >I have the same errors, I noticed them after executing a
> >/etc/init.d/rc.d/mailscanner restart.  I performed a stop then start
and
> >now they are gone.  Kelly Hamlin had the same problem but I never saw
> >any suggestions.
> >
> >D.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> >Behalf Of Keith Wolters
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:50 AM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Errors from mailscanner
> >
> >
> >mailscanner was printing the following message on my console:
> >
> >Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb8) in
> >substitution iterator at
>
>/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm
> >line 828.
> >
> >I stopped mailscanner, moved files from /var/spool/mqueue.in to
> >/var/spool/mqueue and restarted mailscanner and it seems happy now.
> >
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