From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:11:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header
Message-ID: <7vd55jrj38.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <871wm08kcu.fsf@morpheus.local>

David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> The add_user_info function formats the commit as a mail message, and
> uses add_rfc2047 to format the From: line.  The add_rfc2047 assumes
> that the string is encoded as utf-8.

pretty_print_commit() labels the commit log message not just the
author name also as UTF-8 when doing plain_non_ascii.

It might make more sense to just set the log_output_encoding to
be always UTF-8 when generating an e-mail output, in
git-format-patch.

> diff --git a/utf8.h b/utf8.h
> index a07c5a8..eb64d46 100644
> --- a/utf8.h
> +++ b/utf8.h
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ int is_encoding_utf8(const char *name);
>  void print_wrapped_text(const char *text, int indent, int indent2, int len);
>  
>  #ifndef NO_ICONV
> -char *reencode_string(const char *in, const char *out_encoding, const char *in_encoding);
> +char *reencode_string(const char *in, const char *out_encoding, const char *in_encoding, int *len);
>  #else
>  #define reencode_string(a,b,c) NULL
>  #endif

This feels fishy...