On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:50:57PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote: > when sending patch files via git send-email, the perl script assumes > 7bit characters only. If there are other bytes in the body (foreign language > characters in names or translations), some servers (like vger.kernel.org) > reject the mail because of th?t. This patch always adds an 8bit header line > to each mail. This should be done already by git-format-patch when you generate the patch to feed to send-email. What exactly is the workflow you use to generate this problem? Does it matter where the non-ascii characters are (commit versus patch, etc)? What version of git are you using? > diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl > index 77ca8fe..68a462c 100755 > --- a/git-send-email.perl > +++ b/git-send-email.perl > @@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ To: $to${ccline} > Subject: $subject > Date: $date > Message-Id: $message_id > +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion > "; This fix isn't right anyway. For one thing, if you're going to include C-T-E, you should also include a MIME-Version header. But more importantly, we are already handling encoding elsewhere. So unconditionally adding this means that you may conflict with existing MIME headers in the @xh variable. -Peff -- 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