[Pine-info] two bugs involving certain spam

Matt Ackeret mattack at apple.com
Fri Dec 15 11:00:20 PST 2006


On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Patrick J. Collins wrote:

>I just wanted to report two bugs that I see very regularily, both

>involve received spam and really impede Pine's performance.

>

>bug #1: I will be scrolling through my message index, and suddenly

>a message will appear out of place, overlapping on another message..

>I have taken some screen shots:

>

>Here is before placing my cursor on the email:

>http://collinatorstudios.com/www/pine1.png

>

>You can see that usually these emails involve funky characters with

>accents.. So when I move down to this message, this is what happens:

>http://collinatorstudios.com/www/pine2.png


I presume you know this, but if you move off of that message, you can often/
usually fix this sort of thing by simply refreshing your screen with ^L
(control-L)

I'm actually kind of hoping that the Unicode stuff in Alpine will help
fix this problem.



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