Problem with "From:" line on "git format-patch" generated patches

From: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2009, 16:30 UTC
Message-ID: <b8bf37780911030830l42ea6dc2v3ef66e2a9e1ca281@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, everybody!

    When I generate patches using "git format-patch" it always makes
my name garbled in the "From:" line
as shown below. I'm using openSUSE 11.2 RC 1 (x86_64) with the
following settings:

        # locale charmap
        UTF-8
        # echo $LANG
        en_US.UTF-8

    I've tried changing my environment to use another encoding like
ISO-8859-1, but it didn't work as well.

    Does someone can explain why does this happens? Any suggestions?

P.s.: the problem never occurs on the commit message (Signed-off-by)

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>> >From 584d9bfc7c1d41b76a05655b4562b98fcbef6ee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:09:06 -0200
>> Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] vsprintf: factor out skip_space code in a
>> separate function
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> btw., for reviewability's sake, could you please fix your patch
> submission method to not include such garbled headers in the mail body?
>
> (Also, it would be nice to reply-thread the 7 patches on the 0/7 mail,
> as git-send-email does.)

Thank you, André