Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2006, 10:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20061103105349.GA18651@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <454B1BC3.1070203@op5.se>

On 2006-11-03 11:36:51 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> > Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:01:42AM CET, I got a letter
> > where Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> said that...
> >
> > > On 2006-11-03 10:58:59 +0100, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> > >
> > > > I believe all the mails I send with mutt are QP-encoded,
> > >
> > > I just checked, and that one certainly was.
> >
> > Are you sure? As far as I can see, it's 8bit.
>
> 8bit here too.

Spooky. When I get copies of my own mails via the git list, they are QP-encoded; but when I bcc myself directly, I get them in 8bit. But you all say you get them still 8bit-encoded. I'm not sure I even _want_ to know what is happening there.

One thing is certain, though: When I sent 8bit-encoded patches from StGIT to this list, the vger mail server added headers saying that it didn't like 8bit, and had re-encoded the mail (to what, I don't recall just now). It warned that in doing so, it had to make assumptions about the charset used. The assumption it had made was that the text was latin1, which is not so good when it is in fact utf8.

This all just strengthens my belief that StGIT should go to great legths to avoid stepping on mail servers' toes.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com