On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:48:24PM +0200, Fabian Emmes wrote: > --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email > +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email > @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ generate_email_header() > cat <<-EOF > To: $recipients > Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe > + Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > X-Git-Refname: $refname > X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type > X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev Shouldn't this be $(git config i18n.logOutputEncoding), since you will be inserting the output of git rev-list into the mail? And as Teemu mentioned, you need a mime-version and a transfer-encoding header, as well. So maybe (totally untested): --- diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index 2a66063..0c1c6ad 100755 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -192,11 +192,16 @@ generate_email() generate_email_header() { + encoding=`git config i18n.logOutputEncoding` + test -z "$encoding" && encoding=utf-8 # --- Email (all stdout will be the email) # Generate header cat <<-EOF To: $recipients Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe + MIME-Version: 1.0 + Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$encoding + Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Refname: $refname X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html