Re: [RFC] send-email: UTF-8 encoding in subject line
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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
- Date
- Feb 22, 2026, 14:53 UTC
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- <335b1189-f5c3-4e7c-ad3a-266810a0ca90@iee.email>
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- <20260222140737.1760413-1-shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
On 22/02/2026 14:03, Shreyansh Paliwal wrote:
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>>> That makes sense, I tried it below. >>> I also wondered whether, in addition to this, it might be helpful to warn on >>> an invalid charset, and/or possibly fall back to UTF-8. >> >> Agreed on the first half of the statement, if we have an easy and >> portable way to tell if a given random string names a valid charset. >> I do not recommend to "fall back" to anything, if we are asking an >> input from the user. > > Following up on this, I tried adding a warning when the provided charset > does not appear to be valid. Current flow is, > > Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]? y
Perhaps swap around the 'Which-declare' to "Declare which' to to get away from the obviousness of 'Which' being the classic y/n binary question. Action first?
Declare which 8bit encoding to use [default:UTF-8]?
Checking validity of the encoding is a reasonable follow on.
Philip
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> Are you sure you want to use <y> [y/N]? y
>
> With the additional check, it becomes,
>
> Which 8bit encoding should I declare [default: UTF-8]? y
> warning: 'y' does not appear to be a valid charset name.
> Are you sure you want to use <y> [y/N]?
>
> This uses find_encoding() from Perl’s Encode module to detect any
> unrecognized charset names.
>
> Let me know what you think.
> Also, is there any new test that should be added for this change?
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com>
> ---
> git-send-email.perl | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index cd4b316ddc..e62fa259ba 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
> use Git::LoadCPAN::Error qw(:try);
> use Git;
> use Git::I18N;
> +use Encode qw(find_encoding);
>
> Getopt::Long::Configure qw/ pass_through /;
>
> @@ -1044,9 +1045,25 @@ sub file_declares_8bit_cte {
> foreach my $f (sort keys %broken_encoding) {
> print " $f\n";
> }
> - $auto_8bit_encoding = ask(__("Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]? "),
> - valid_re => qr/.{4}/, confirm_only => 1,
> - default => "UTF-8");
> + while (1) {
> + my $encoding = ask(__("Which 8bit encoding should I declare [default: UTF-8]? "),
> + valid_re => qr/^\S+$/,
> + default => "UTF-8");
> + next unless defined $encoding;
> + if (find_encoding($encoding)) {
> + $auto_8bit_encoding = $encoding;
> + last;
> + }
> + printf STDERR __("warning: '%s' does not appear to be a valid charset name.\n"), $encoding;
> + my $yesno = ask(
> + sprintf(__("Are you sure you want to use <%s> [y/N]? "), $encoding),
> + valid_re => qr/^(?:y|n)/i,
> + default => 'n');
> + if (defined $yesno && $yesno =~ /^y/i) {
> + $auto_8bit_encoding = $encoding;
> + last;
> + }
> + }
> }
>
> if (!$force) {