From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:53:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Stupid quoting...
Message-ID: <20070619205313.GA90303@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191048570.4059@racer.site>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:50:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Don't just throw away backwards compatibility, only because it does 
> > > not fit your wishes.
> > 
> > There is no backwards compatibility involved here _at_ _all_.
> 
> I was not talking about Git here. The specification for SMTP is not going 
> to change just because you want it. There are still mail servers out there 
> which speak 7-bit, and the standard requires you to cope with them.

There are standards to send 8-bit into 7-bit for email, and \xxx is in
none of them.  And 8-to-7 encoding for email is not git's job in any
case unless git speaks SMTP directly.  8-to-7 is the mail client
responsability.

  OG.