From: Jeff King Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:58:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Added support for OS X right click Message-ID: <20070804175826.GC17113@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:37:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > However (and this is a pretty common thing), the *headers* are > unspecified, and a lot of email clients seem to think that if that > happens, they default to US-ASCII and think that those iso-latin1 > characters are crud. Well, that _is_ what the standard says, I believe. I agree with you that practice is more important than a standard, and if there are high-bit characters in the 'From' field, I think that using the body charset is a reasonable guess (although keep in mind that the "body" could be hidden below a multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative, or some other arcane structure). But I really have no idea why fully mime-aware mailers refuse to use rfc2047 encoding of the headers. In fact, my copy of the message you sent (to which I am replying) has munged Väinö's name in the cc header, because it failed to use rfc2047 encoding. I'm surprised that alpine would fail to get that right. -Peff