From: Josh Soref via GitGitGadget Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:41:59 GMT Subject: [PATCH 8/8] SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII Message-ID: <92469324813702418a9db0b2e760580518b225cd.1702975320.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: From: Josh Soref Git documentation does this with the exception of ancient release notes. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b4fa52ae348..3c53592cfc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ message to an external program, and this is a handy way to drive `git am`. However, if the message is MIME encoded, what is piped into the program is the representation you see in your `*Article*` buffer after unwrapping MIME. This is often not what -you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non ASCII +you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non-ASCII characters (most notably in people's names), and also whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running "C-u g" to display the message in raw form before using "|" to run the pipe can work -- gitgitgadget