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

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>]

Jeff King 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.
Well, this could be discussed, after all the problem lies in the actual 
transportation, which should be the responsibility of git-send-email. 
But I am OK with putting this into format-patch.
 > What exactly is the workflow you use to generate this problem?
I use git format-patch to generate a patch file for a single-mail patch 
(not a patch series). Then I edit this file manually to add questions 
and comments and include my signature. During this step the umlauts came 
in. If you have a suggestion to improve this workflow, I am all ears, I 
am fairly new to git.
> Does it matter where the non-ascii characters are
> (commit versus patch, etc)?
Oh, right you are. If there are 8bit characters in the commit message, 
git-format-patch adds the appropriate headers.
 > What version of git are you using?
Version 1.5.5 on one machine and 1.5.2.2 on another. I know, i know ;-) 
but I haven't had time to compile a newer one, yet.

> 
>> 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.

Ok, so what about adding a flag to git-format-patch that forces the 8bit 
headers on? I think a workaround would be to add a --subject-prefix with 
a special character and later remove this, but this is not really a 
long-term solution ;-)

Thanks and regards,
Andre.

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