Hello there. I did read the FAQ: *********************************************** 4.6. I get 'Malformed UTF-8 character' errors on Red Hat 8, or using perl 5.8.0, with SA 2.43.
Perl 5.8 introduces a policy change to using UTF-8 character sets by default, which broke a massive amount of existing perl code, including SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin 2.50 will contain a fix, but in the meantime, add this line to the script which starts spamd, or runs the spamassassin script: LANG=en_US; export LANG *********************************************** But the same problem is present for me although I have SA 2.55. Does it make sense? (I have RedHat9 and perl-5.8.0-88 and if I 'echo $LANG', I get 'en_US.UTF-8'). I don't even know how to try the suggested fix because I have no script that starts spamd or runs the spamassassin script (SA is used from my MUA, VM, withing Emacs). I guess I could change my LANG variable in my .bash_profile, but, being a computer ignorant, and having never understood what this "locale" stuff is, I am afraid of side effects... I've also search the archives, which did not help me more than the FAQ. Thanks in advance for any help Alain Cochard ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk