From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 23:28:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] icase match on non-ascii
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Patch 5 is "funny". The patch itself is in iso-8859-1, but my name in
>> the commit message is in utf-8.
>
> As an e-mail message is a single file, by definition that is not merely
> "funny" but just "broken", no matter what encoding your MUA
> declares the contents are in, no?

Yes. But if your MUA is not so strict and does not reject invalid byte
sequences, git-am might be able to process it. What are the options we
have? Teach git-format-patch to generate patches with non-ascii chars
as binary (utf-8 may be treated specially and kept as-is after
validation)?
-- 
Duy