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Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: rfc2047-quote subject lines with non-ascii characters

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Mar 29, 2008, 08:44 UTC
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Den Saturday 29 March 2008 08.22.03 skrev Jeff King:
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> 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?

I guess the best bet is to assume the locale. Btw, is the encoding header from the commit (when present) completely lost? (not that it can be trusted anyway).

-- robin
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Message 21 of 32 in “[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.5-rc2”
  1. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMar 28, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2008
  4. Jeff KingMar 28, 2008
  5. Jeff KingMar 28, 2008
  6. 1/2 send-email: specify content-type of --compose bodyJeff King, Mar 28, 2008
  7. 2/2 send-email: rfc2047-quote subject lines with non-ascii charactersJeff King, Mar 28, 2008
  8. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  9. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  10. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  11. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  12. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  13. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  14. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  15. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  16. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  17. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  18. Sam VilainMar 30, 2008
  19. Jeff KingMar 30, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 30, 2008
  21. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  23. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  24. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  25. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  26. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  27. Robin RosenbergMar 29, 2008
  28. Jeff KingMar 29, 2008
  29. Sam VilainMar 30, 2008
  30. Jeff KingMar 30, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2008
  32. Jeff KingMay 21, 2008

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