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Re: Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool ..

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 30, 2007, 14:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20071030140929.GA22101@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20071030140630.GC21342@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:06:30AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> > What would be a problem ?   Some of us have names that are encoded
> > in 8-bit form,  and some receiving systems get all mighty upset when
> > they receive unlabelled email carry 8-bit encoded texts.
> > (Thanks to chinese and russian spammers..)
> 
> Then git-send-email should be generating the MIME headers if there are
> 8-bit characters. Can you produce a test case where the most recent
> version of git-send-email it does not?

Actually, btw, the code in question is from git-format-patch (it's just that git-send-email doesn't add _any_ mime headers, as it assumes git-format-patch either did it already, or none are needed).

-Peff
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  1. Matti AarnioOct 30, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 30, 2007
  3. Matti AarnioOct 30, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 30, 2007
  5. Jeff KingOct 30, 2007
  6. Jeff KingOct 30, 2007

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