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Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:29:17 +0200
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Jari Aalto, Fri, Apr 27, 2007 19:33:35 +0200:
> > Having said that, I think that you can actually teach every mail app 
> > (except maybe web-based ones) to respect formatting, including white 
> > space.
> 
> I hope the development team considers this. There is another uses case
> that I can think of too:
> 
> - Sending non us-ascii patches (different langauge)

not a good use case: you can send text/plain mails with UTF-8 content
just as easily. And the patches will apply.

P.S. You ignored the suggestion to implement base64. Why?