[bug-notifications] [mutt 0002973]: mutt compiled with libidn does not work with the defaul locale

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http://opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2973 
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Reported By:                bfr-murphy
Assigned To:                phil
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Project:                    mutt
Issue ID:                   2973
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2008-12-17 21:13 CET
Last Modified:              2009-06-02 17:58 CEST
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Summary:                    mutt compiled with libidn does not work with the
defaul locale
Description: 
When compiled with libidn mutt does not work with the "C" or "POSIX"
locales.  The error 'Bad IDN "{hostname of IMAP server}".' is printed in
the message line at the bottom of the terminal window and no connection is
made to the IMAP server.

This is a problem because the Sun default locale is "C".

Unsetting the mutt variable use_idn or changing the value of the mutt
variables charset, assumed_charset, attach_charset, config_charset, and
send_charset does not fix the problem.

Possible solutions:

1) Do not compile mutt with libidn.

2) Provide a wrapper script that checks the LANG shell environment
variable and changes the LC_ALL shell environment variable to another value
if LANG is "C" or "POSIX".  There would need to be a way for the user to
specify a locale other than "C" or "POSIX" for the wrapper to use.


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 (0006244) skayser (administrator) - 2009-06-02 17:58
 http://opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2973#c6244 
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I have just had the same problem with one of my co-workers, but with a
locale != C/POSIX. Underlying issue was not with mutt, but that he had the
"evil" LD_LIBRARY_PATH set and thus mutt runtime-linked against a non-csw
libiconv.

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/kde/qt/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/local/kde/lib:/usr/local/lib

$ ldd /opt/csw/bin/mutt
...
        libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2

Getting rid of $LD_LIBRARY_PATH solved the issue. bfr-murphy, if this is
still an issue for you, can you please check whether you have
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH set? Providing the output of "set" and "ldd
/opt/csw/bin/mutt" might also help. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2008-12-17 21:13 bfr-murphy     New Issue                                    
2009-02-27 02:42 philadmin      Status                   new => assigned     
2009-02-27 02:42 philadmin      Assigned To               => phil            
2009-06-02 17:58 skayser        Note Added: 0006244                          
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