On 30 August 2011 11:17, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:08:34 +0300 > Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This patch was sent with git-send-email but it's in base64 encoding. >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >> >> Why did that happen? > > Presumably it got re-encoded because a mail system in the path between > him and you decided it was traversing a 7bit path and helpfully > reprocessed it to avoid corruption. > > If your mailer can't automatically handle utf-8/base64 perhaps you need a > better one ;) Maybe not - now you mention it, when git send-email got to this particular patch, it did ask me if I wanted to use UTF-8, which it's never done before. I'm not aware of anything unusual I did with this patch set, but i've just done a format-patch and git send-email again to get: git send-email --to=mark.einon@xxxxxxxxx 0004-staging-et131x-Remove-redundant-replica-loopback-cod.patch 0004-staging-et131x-Remove-redundant-replica-loopback-cod.patch The following files are 8bit, but do not declare a Content-Transfer-Encoding. 0004-staging-et131x-Remove-redundant-replica-loopback-cod.patch Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]? Not sure how that's happened. Mark _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel