[Mimedefang] Re: Perl stderr: Malformed UTF-8 character.

[Troy Carpenter]

Did you look in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n ?

Look in there for the LANG= line.  Does it have ".UTF-8" appended to it?
Look at the SUPPORTED= line.  Does it have your language listed WITHOUT
the ".UTF-8"?

Here's what my i18n file looks like:
 LANG="en_US"
 SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
 SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

If you don't have an i18n file, then grep for UTF-8 in the sysconfig
directory.

I had the same error messages you did, and from just about every perl
script that used regular expressions.  When I changed the LANG= line to
drop the .UTF-8 extension and rebooted, all the problems went away.  I
don't think changing it and exporting was sufficient.

Troy Carpenter
troy at carpenter.cx

-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:50:38 +0200
From: Sergey Zhuravlev <srg at softline.kiev.ua>
Organization: Softline Company
To: MIMEDefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: [Mimedefang] Perl stderr: Malformed UTF-8 character.
Reply-To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com

Hello,

I've RedHat 7.x, Sendmail 8.12.6, Perl 5.8, MD 2.24, SA 2.43 I'd a
problem, there were many messages such as " ...
mimedefang[10710]: Perl stderr: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected
non-continuation byte 0xce, immediately after 
start byte 0xc1) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 44) line 488. ...
mimedefang[10710]: Perl stderr: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected
non-continuation byte 0xcc, immediately after 
start byte 0xd7) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 44) line 628. ...
mimedefang[10710]: Perl stderr: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected
non-continuation byte 0xcf, immediately after 
start byte 0xc4) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 44) line 618. ...

".
The decision "LANG=C" has not helped. I've solved a problem having
replaced functions 
get_decoded_stripped_body_text_array in
.../Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm from version SA 2.31.


With regards, Sergey.