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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email
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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.