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Invalid responses to 8bit encoding and In-Reply-To questions

From
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Feb 4, 2015, 09:07 UTC
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>From a thread on another mailing list:
| > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=y
| > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
| >
| > When I try to apply it git am says:
| >
| > $ git am --signoff geert1.patch
| > fatal: cannot convert from y to UTF-8
| >
| > Wut? I never heard of an encoding named "y", and SMTP is
| > not my strongest subject anyway.
|
| Oops, I'm afraid automatic-I replied "y" to the git-send-email question
| "Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]?"
| (happened before with the In-Reply-To questions ;-(

Would it be possible to reject obviously wrong replies ("y", "yes", "n", "no") to the 8bit encoding and In-Reply-To questions?

Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
                        Geert

-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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