Re: [PATCH] allow 8bit data in email body sent by send-email

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

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