If your name is, say, Üwë, you want your cover letters to appear correctly. Convince format-patch to mark it as 8-bit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- builtin-log.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c index 3600215..d4a6a7d 100644 --- a/builtin-log.c +++ b/builtin-log.c @@ -678,6 +678,10 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_stdout, log_write_email_headers(rev, head, &subject_start, &extra_headers, &need_8bit_cte); + for (i = 0; !need_8bit_cte && i < nr; i++) + if (has_non_ascii(list[i]->buffer)) + need_8bit_cte = 1; + msg = body; pp_user_info(NULL, CMIT_FMT_EMAIL, &sb, committer, DATE_RFC2822, encoding); -- 1.6.3.2.734.g770e