Re: [Pan-users] New file posting feature, broken? Misunderstood?

[walt]

On 06/29/2011 01:09 AM, Heinrich Mueller wrote:

> Done. Feel free to test it...

Wow, while you are in high gear and still in a good mood, can I
sneak in one more nitpick?

I posted a test attachment to gmane.test, and noticed that there
is one spurious byte added at the end of the attachment:

void
Encoder :: disable_progress_update ()
{
  if (_gsourceid > -1) {
    g_source_remove (_gsourceid);
    _gsourceid = -1;
  }
}

ÿ    <---- this character is not part of my original pan post

Last three lines of the post after piping through hexdump -C:

00002ff0  34 4a 4a a7 34 a7 34 0a  3d 79 65 6e 64 20 73 69  |4JJ.4.4.=yend si|
00003000  7a 65 3d 39 31 34 39 20  63 72 63 33 32 3d 61 34  |ze=9149 crc32=a4|
00003010  32 35 38 33 66 34 0a 0a  ff 0a 0a 0a              |2583f4......|
                                   ^^   <--- the 'ff' is spurious

AFAICT that 'ff' is interpreted by my news and email clients as the
UTF-8 character ÿ (UTF+00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS: French).

Twenty years ago I would have spent all day finding the bug and submitting
a patch. <sigh>