On 14/03, Brian Swetland wrote: | > Only format-patch knows what encoding has been used by itself to | > generate the message. Doing it at any later stage would have to guess | > what the correct charset is. | | When the encoded string is entirely ascii except for one or two characters | (such as occurs in a lot of patches I handle from people with names | not represented in plain ascii) guessing later on seems to run pretty | high risk of guessing wrong. | [...] | Considering that UTF-8 is the expected default encoding (right?) for | git metadata, it seems to be the sane thing to indicate if the default | is unchanged. Yup. -- 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
