Re: Missing MIME-headers in git-email-tool ..

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 10:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710301028360.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071030095338.GZ6372@mea-ext.zmailer.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matti Aarnio wrote:

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> The  git-send-email  does send posts without any sort of MIME labeling:
> 
>   From: / To: removed
> 
>   Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver updates
>   Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:33:15 +0800
>   Message-Id: <1193736797-9005-1-git-send-email-bryan.wu@analog.com>
>   X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.4
>   Precedence: bulk
> 
> 
> which per MIME rules means that the message in question is equivalent
> to one with header labels:
> 
>   MIME-Version: 1.0
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

AFAICT MIME headers are only added when needed. (But that might only apply to format-patch; however, if you signed off with your name, all should be well.)

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> Now if the  git-send-email would add following three lines in all
> outgoing email headers, things would be 99% correct for a long time..
> 
>   MIME-Version: 1.0
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT

No.

Not at all.

ISO-8859-15 is just as wrong as ASCII. You just forget about the majority of the population on this earth. That is just as arrogant and snobbish as the people who thought that ASCII would be good enough for everyone.

Ciao, Dscho