Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending

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Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> One thing is certain, though: When I sent 8bit-encoded patches from
> StGIT to this list, the vger mail server added headers saying that it
> didn't like 8bit, and had re-encoded the mail (to what, I don't recall
> just now). It warned that in doing so, it had to make assumptions
> about the charset used. The assumption it had made was that the text
> was latin1, which is not so good when it is in fact utf8.
>
> This all just strengthens my belief that StGIT should go to great
> legths to avoid stepping on mail servers' toes.

I wonder if this can be solved by simply reusing the machinery
format-patch already has.  If calling it as a standalone script
does more unnecessary things than what StGIT wants, we should
certainly be able to separate the only necessary part out to
suit StGIT's needs.


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