From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:53:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] send-email: UTF-8 encoding in subject line
Message-ID: <CALnO6CALy48cmpqSp7TMjkg0ZuuMwhw_hsvLU09yxp5MSEi=Wg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqldgmrom9.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Yeah, that was a bit confusing for me until I got used to it. Maybe
> >> saying “[default: UTF-8]” would be a small and definite improvement?
>
> The current message can be mistaken, if the reader does not READ, if
> it is asking a yes/no question, but with the "default" label, you
> cannot imagine answering "yes", which is clearly not one of the
> things in the same class as "UTF-8" that is given as the default,
> which also serves as an example.
>
> This is indeed a clever hack (not hack on computer code but hack on
> the mind of human who is reading the message).

Yep. I've seen it somewhere before; I thought it was from Portage's
emerge in "ask" mode, but checking that doesn't seem to be the case.

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D. Ben Knoble