Bug#778822: patch for handling non ASCII and non UTF8 headers in headache

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Le 2015-02-20 11:39, Virgile Prevosto a écrit :
> Package: headache
> Version: 1.03-24
>
> The utf8-length patch appeared in version 1.03-22 systematically uses
> UTF8.length to compute string lengths, which will produce wrong
> results if the header uses another encoding, such as iso-latin-1. The
> attached patch proposes to fall back to plain String.length if the
> given string is not a well formed utf-8 string.

Who uses iso-latin-1 anyway? :-P

I'll try to look if it is possible to include this for Jessie (I have
some doubts). Otherwise, it will wait for Jessie's release. (Which 
means
if you get lucky, you'll have it in Ubuntu within 2 years! :D).

> This issue has already been reported on Ubuntu's bts
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/headache/+bug/1083216) as
> I'm using Xubuntu 14.10, but it seems that noone there is interested
> in fixing it (issue was opened on 2012-11-26).

Thanks for noticing it! :-D I'd correct your sentence though: There is
no one there doing OCaml stuff (and speaking on Ubuntu, globally). It
is not supported (except the compiler itself). So, of course, no one
will ever reply.

Regards,

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Mehdi