Re: Newsboat is crashing on startup

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

Dear Sean,

On 2018-11-11, Sean Hammond wrote:
> The package newsboat is crashing on startup. Any chance this can be
> fixed?
> $ newsboatStarting newsboat 2.13.0...
> Loading configuration...done.
> Opening cache...done.
> Loading URLs from /sdf/arpa/ns/s/seanh/.newsboat/urls...done.
> Loading articles from cache...done.
> iconv_open('646', 'WCHAR_T') failed: Invalid argumentAbort (core dumped)
> Thanks!

I agree that it should be fixed, but I did not figure out the correct
fix yet. As a workaround, have you tried setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8
(or another suitable value) before running newsboat?

Kind Regards,

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Yorick Hardy