[patch] The patch, which should fix the issue.

chardet.c.patch (text/plain), 759 bytes, created by Sergey S. Starikoff on 2009-08-25 05:54:51 UTC

--- chardet.c.orig	2009-07-07 04:39:12.000000000 +0600
+++ chardet.c	2009-07-15 14:44:22.567920030 +0600
@@ -66,11 +66,9 @@
     if (dfa_validate_utf8(str, strlen(str)))
         return g_strdup(str);
 
-#  ifdef HAVE_UDET
     /* chardet encoding detector */
     if ((out_str = chardet_to_utf8(str, strlen(str), NULL, NULL, NULL)))
         return out_str;
-#  endif
 #endif
 
     /* assume encoding associated with locale */
@@ -98,9 +96,9 @@
 	bytes_read  = arg_bytes_read ? arg_bytes_read : &my_bytes_read;
 	bytes_write = arg_bytes_write ? arg_bytes_write : &my_bytes_write;
 	error       = arg_error ? arg_error : NULL;
-
+	
 	g_return_val_if_fail(str != NULL, NULL);
-
+	
 #ifdef USE_CHARDET
 	if(cfg.chardet_detector)
 		det = cfg.chardet_detector;