Re: email address handling

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 	S.__a__lar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
> > 
> > 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.