tags 465484 moreinfo
thanks
Nis Martensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> /etc/cron.daily/apticron:
> Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
> . . . message not sent.
> "//dead.letter" 1285/51195
> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/apticron exited with return code 1
>
> This seems to be caused by UTF-8 encoded characters in the debian
> changelogs (to be sent by apticron via mailx). There was no default
> locale configured for root (and thus POSIX assumed).

Thanks for spotting this. I believe that putting a 

  set ttycharset=utf8

into /etc/nail.rc should fix this issue. Could you please try whether
the bug is still reproducible with that setting?

> Since I am not sure that this behaviour is expected or wanted, I am
> filing this bug.

One could certainly argue that /bin/mail compatible programs shouldn't
be expected to behaved in a defined way if non-ASCII input is fed to
them. But I don't consider that approach particularly pragmatic. :-)

Cheers,
-Hilko



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