On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > S.__a__lar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > oh. So .mailmap isn't usable either. Argh. > > Btw, your mailer really is broken. It seems to have turned my correct > utf-8 email into US-ASCII. > > Or at least it was correct when it came back to me. I don't see the > corruption. But your mailer seems to be unable to handle any complex > character sets and did > > X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > and I wonder why? > > Yeah, I feel superior, because alpine actually gets things right these > days. I too used to be character-set-confused. > sylpheed. If you use its internal editor it mostly gets things right. But if you use its use-external-editor feature it messes up those things when saving out to its temporary file. And it was written by a Japanese guy. I'll often fix it in changelogs by re-editing the changelog and doing a copy-n-paste from sylpheed's display window into the editor, which does work. All a bit of a pain though. -- 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
