On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:50:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Don't just throw away backwards compatibility, only because it does > > > not fit your wishes. > > > > There is no backwards compatibility involved here _at_ _all_. > > I was not talking about Git here. The specification for SMTP is not going > to change just because you want it. There are still mail servers out there > which speak 7-bit, and the standard requires you to cope with them. There are standards to send 8-bit into 7-bit for email, and \xxx is in none of them. And 8-to-7 encoding for email is not git's job in any case unless git speaks SMTP directly. 8-to-7 is the mail client responsability. OG. - 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
