jasun's blog

MT-Blacklist gone mad!

For some reason I seem to be experiencing some issues with MT-Blacklist. I've upgraded since and reset the blacklist but still no change. For some reason it's displaying errors. I've found some things which relate to it but have not been able to resolve the issue.

The errors that I am getting when running a de-spam are:

--

jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x8297090) Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xc5, immediately after start byte 0xf3) in substitution (s///).

jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x8297090) Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xc5, immediately after start byte 0xf3) in transliteration (tr///) at /path-to/Blacklist.pm line 3159.

jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x8297090) Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xc5, immediately after start byte 0xf3) in pattern match (m//) at /path-to/Blacklist.pm line 3103.

--

It's one of those times when something just stops working for no reason. The errors repeat all with the same line referenced (3103) but the first line is (3159). I thought it might have had something to do with some domains I imported as some of them had strange characters in. But I reset the list to test and it still made no difference so then I upgraded MT-BL and no still no change.

From looking at the code, I'm not sure what the problem is. I've spoken to Jay Allen about it but he has not really got time at the moment to investigate and would suggest the upgrades. There's nothing I could find on the forum, apart from one post from a while ago but with no replies.

I also changed the language so it is as shown below:

LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

As the UTF-8 which was included before has been the cause of similar errors with other things reported by other people on their systems, but the change did not make any difference in this case. I'd not made any changes before the errors started but after some reading it might have something to do with some other things which may have been changed by Ben so I'll need to speak to him and check as I've not touched them - CPAN modules as an example.

I've covered all the angles I can at the moment, so will continue investigating later. Maybe this is another reason why I should hurry up and upgrade to MT v3 and MT-BL v2 to enjoy a lot of new features and things to make tasks easier and automated.

Soon, I will sort the upgrades.