On 09/01/2015 12:16 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Tue, September 1, 2015 14:35, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> Mark Sapiro writes: >> >> > I don't know what you are grepping, but if it's the mbox, you shouldn't >> > be looking for "\xea", you should be looking for "ê". >> >> At least on recent BSD-based systems "\xea" is a well-defined escape >> sequence, interpreted as the hexadecimal representation of a byte. >> Dunno about GNU or proprietary systems. (POSIX.2) > > This is GNU grep under Debian.
In my testing with GNU grep on Ubuntu 15.04, 'grep "\xea"' interprets \x as a literal x and therefore looks for the string "xea", not for the character whose hex value is EA. > We are running 2.1.13 from tarballs and so the Mailman code did not change > when the archive web page generation stopped. The only thing that changed > was the version of Python (2.5 -> 2.6?) under the OS. > > Doing a "arch --wipe mylist" seems to have solved the issue, though now > I'm curious to know why \xea was a problem before but suddenly isn't after > the wipe. Here's what I suspect was going on. Your first run of bin/arch encountered some non-ascii in a header and threw the exception, but not before writing bad data to the pipermail database for that month. You then "fixed" the non-ascii in the input mbox, but subsequent runs of bin/arch still encountered the bad data in the database when they got to that month. Finally, you added the --wipe option and that removed everythin and rebuilt from scratch and as there was no non-ascii in the mbox headers, it worked. As to why this didn't happen before, see my next reply. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
