From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:22:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: rfc2047-quote subject lines with non-ascii characters
Message-ID: <20080329072203.GA17625@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200803290819.07280.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 08:19:07AM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> Den Friday 28 March 2008 22.29.01 skrev Jeff King:
> > We always use 'utf-8' as the encoding, since we currently
> > have no way of getting the information from the user.
> 
> Don't set encoding to UTF-8 unless it actually looks like UTF-8.

OK. Do you have an example function that guesses with high probability
whether a string is utf-8? If there are non-ascii characters but we
_don't_ guess utf-8, what should we do?

-Peff