Re: [Pan-users] Empty posts in Pan?

[Duncan]

Graham P Davis posted on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:11:07 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:52:37 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> I think this may be a bug in Pan, I'm not sure.
>> 
>> 
> Perhaps not the same trouble you have but I also find that Pan
> occasionally refuses to download the body of a post. It marks it as read
> but that's all. Sometimes a double-click on the header will work instead
> of single. Failing that, I just close Pan - having marked the post
> "unread" first! - and restart.
> 
> Using openSUSE 11.4, KDE 4.6.4, Pan 0.134.

Have you tried the manual "read article" function when that happens? 
Context-click, choose read article (or choose it from the article menu).

The times I've seen that, the manual method has worked, and I've chalked 
it up to pan detecting (rightly or wrongly) that the article is a multi-
part, which it doesn't have all the parts of.  The manual "read article" 
function forces pan to download what it can find and display what it can 
display, even if it doesn't believe it to be complete.

I've also seen pan occasionally download a post, but refuse to display it 
or to display it properly (IDR which at this point).  At least one of 
those I traced down to someone using no-split-blank-space or whatever 
it's called.  With 0.133 at least, pan didn't parse those correctly, but 
that's one of the things I believe KHaley patched fairly soon after it 
became obvious he was taking over development (before PKovar arranged to 
alias with gnome, apparently KHaley isn't interested in that aspect).  It 
should thus be in 0.134, altho I don't really know as I've been running 
khaley's testing branch for so long.  But it's quite possible there are a 
few other characters in various charsets that pan doesn't like, and if 
it's an invalid character for that charset, well....

In that case, I use save-article to save the article text, which pan can 
still do, and read it using a text editor.  (That's actually how I 
figured out what pan was choking on, by replacing the cached version with 
an edited copy, removing various blocks of text and having pan try to 
display it, until I narrowed it down to one character, which my text 
editor displayed the hex code for, so I could look up the result to see 
what it was, that non-splitting-blank-space or whatever they call it, in 
UTF-8, IIRC.)

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