Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Feb 9, 2009, 19:22 UTC
Message-ID: <kzzjRvB2M5uliRiLEqrN04NicW1QU3nr34zZu0lEAhdLiv9YxvOrsw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <49907F75.2050100@beonex.com>

Ben Bucksch wrote:

> On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote:
>> I will follow up with an example patch which has the control
>> characters in
>> it.

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> email bodies are never
> going to be character-to-character identical, because there are many
> demands on formatting (up to graphical smiles) and from many different
> languages (charsets, like seems to be the problem here) on it by users
> -,

I can understand that the display of the message would not be optimal, and could be different from what the sender intended, but I expect that the saved version would be identical to the original.

In the 'graphical smilie' example, you still save colon-close-parenthesis in the file don't you? and not the little smiley face bitmap?

> I think your better route for success would be to use inline
> attachments and fix the software which can't deal with *that* properly,
> including display and quoting.

It's not the display part that causes a problem for me, it's the "saving" part. The displayed gobledygook is fine. The saved gobledygook is not.

Why doesn't Thunderbird just save out the raw message?

-brandon