On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:11, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > AFAICT the original message did not declare an encoding: > > Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 > Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:02:14 +0200 > Message-ID: <cover.1276336602.git.trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1.561.g94582 > In-Reply-To: <20100612000002.GA30196@neumann> > References: <20100612000002.GA30196@neumann> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain > Return-Path: trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ... > Is this a new vger policy, or am I hitting a send-email bug? Let's assume the headers themselves are already properly encoded. According to: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html we have: The proper Content-Transfer-Encoding label must always be used. and: An encoding type of 7BIT requires that the body is already in a 7bit mail-ready representation. This is the default value -- that is, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT" is assumed if the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field is not present. Moreover, according to: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2046.html we have: 4.1.2 Charset Parameter ... The default character set, which must be assumed in the absence of a charset parameter, is US-ASCII. So, your email is indeed incorrect in 2 ways if the body contains UTF-8 encoded data. >From what I've skimmed, the mail user agent (MUA)---such as send-email---could send your unmodified message body by producing these headers: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit but only 7bit transfer encodings are guaranteed to make it intact to the destination; consequently, it would probably be a good idea for the MUA to transform your message into some 7bit encoding, preferably a human-readable one such as the 'quoted-printable' encoding; after such a transformation, the headers could be: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sincerely, Michael Witten -- 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