Steve Langasek wrote:
> Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>> I decided to disable the charset patch introduced in -22 again,
>> because it leads to some problems which I think aren't acceptable
>> for a stable release (e.g. #411667).
>>
>> Please unblock slrn 0.9.8.1pl1-28 which has this patch disabled.
>
> Your upload seems to disable three different patches, not just one;
> why was it not sufficient to disable the last, "fallback_charset" patch,
> given that it was stated in the bug report that the crash only happens
> when fallback_charset is set?
Because there are too much broken newsreaders in the world (see #406210) which
do not declare a charset in the header of articles, and there's no way to
specify
a default charset for broken articles with only the charset patch enabled
(without
the fallback_charset patch).
Norbert
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