Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Steven,

> > I use this version, unaltered:
> > $ par version
> > par 1.53.0
>
>     $ par version
>     1.52-i18n.4

That ‘i18n’ smells given the nature of the other patch I found earlier.

>     $ pacman -Qi par
>     Name            : par
>     Version         : 1.52-8
>     Description     : Paragraph reformatter
>     Architecture    : x86_64
>     URL             : http://www.nicemice.net/par/

Assuming Manjaro is just picking this up from Arch Linux,
I think this is the shell script which builds the package.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=par

In particular,

    source=('http://www.nicemice.net/par/Par152.tar.gz'
            'http://sysmic.org/dl/par/par-1.52-i18n.4.patch')

Attempting to retrieve the patch times out for me on the French IPv4
address.

I didn't find it anywhere else.  I did find NixOS also pulls it in.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/text/par/default.nix

    patches = [
        # A patch by Jérôme Pouiller that adds support for multibyte
        # charsets (like UTF-8), plus Debian packaging.
        (fetchpatch {
          url = "http://sysmic.org/dl/par/par-1.52-i18n.4.patch";;
          sha256 = "0alw44lf511jmr38jnh4j0mpp7vclgy0grkxzqf7q158vzdb6g23";
        })
    ];

Can you try searching par again, this time with

    file /usr/bin/par
    env LC_ALL=C egrep -boa 'seems not configured' /usr/bin/par

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.