Re: a bug about format-patch of multibyte characters comment

From: xzer <xiaozhu@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2011, 10:22 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Ty22nzd6ja=XmMzMu+YzDKDSBMCOGRfKenhR4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D57AEFC.10608@gmail.com>

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> A sample of rfc2047 show us a legal line broken subject mail, like
> following:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?=
>    =?ISO-8859-2?B?dSB1bmRlcnN0YW5kIHRoZSBleGFtcGxlLg==?=
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I understand that the current format-patch is not not valid to
> rfc2822/rfc2047,
> but even a valid one just like above, most of the mail client will can not
> show it
> correctly, they show the first line only, I think that's a problem of user
> friendliness.

I am sorry I made a mistake, there is no problem of mail client, I just create a wrong format to test. So now I think if we can generate a valid rfc2047 patch file, and then make the am also analyze the patch file correctly, there is no problem. Isn't it?

-xzer