Re: PS: Re: "iconv: illegal input sequence" in VM
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Charles G Waldman <cgw(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote:
$ iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 ~/Mail/INBOX
also results in the:
"iconv: illegal input sequence at position xxxx"
so there's really some invalid characters in the input, I'll have to
try to understand how they are getting in there (again, this seems to
happen with mail that people are sending from IPhones). The actual
bytes are: e2 80 a2
Sure. That's U+2022 (if I've done the math right, but it's close
enough:-), obviously out of the ISO 8859/1 range. That is,
the problem is not that it's illegal UTF-8. It's that it is illegal
to convert it to ISO 8859/1.
(the double-quote before "test" is displaying correclty as
a bullet in
the terminal,but turns into a double-quote when I copy/paste to
XEmacs).
This I don't yet understand, I'll try to look at it in the next
couple of days.
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