[Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>] > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 12:39:15AM -0800, Brian Swetland wrote: > > > This issue with the encoding of the author got me thinking... > > > > What happens if the metadata has utf8 content and the patch itself has > > some *other* non-ascii encoding (some iso-latin variant perhaps). > > > > Is there any way to deal with that situation sanely other than indicate > > that it's 8bit content and not specify an encoding? Is that what > > happens currently? > > The body has to be in one encoding, so at the time that you know both > encodings, you have to pick one and convert the data from the discarded > encoding into the used encoding. That seems potentially bad in that the transport (mailed patches) could be altering the contents of the patch. Or is this process reversed when the patch is finally applied? Brian - 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
