On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Patch 5 is "funny". The patch itself is in iso-8859-1, but my name in >> the commit message is in utf-8. > > As an e-mail message is a single file, by definition that is not merely > "funny" but just "broken", no matter what encoding your MUA > declares the contents are in, no? Yes. But if your MUA is not so strict and does not reject invalid byte sequences, git-am might be able to process it. What are the options we have? Teach git-format-patch to generate patches with non-ascii chars as binary (utf-8 may be treated specially and kept as-is after validation)? -- Duy -- 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