From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:25:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sha1-lookup: add new "sha1_pos" function to efficiently lookup sha1
Message-ID: <20090405202551.GD4716@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vocvaq36x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 01:02:30PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I think Junio is trying to learn base64 :)!
> 
> I think that is what my Gnus/message-mode did.  I do not know which letter
> triggered it to decide it is UTF-8 to begin with, though.  As far as I am
> aware, I didn't type anything non-ascii in my message.

Actually, it is Sverre's fault. :)

You quoted his message, quoting Christian's message. Christian's message
was 7bit. But for some reason, Sverre's quoting of Christian's message
contains weird iso8859 space characters (0xa0).

But it is probably worth configuring Gnus to use QP instead of base64.
It's more efficient (for mostly ascii text), more readable to humans
looking at the encoded form, and is less likely to make you look like a
spammer. :)

-Peff