Re: MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)

["Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:31:16PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>
>  > By the way, 'git send-email --compose' does not add MIME headers to
>  > introductory message. All non-Ascii chars will output something
>  > undefined in receivers' end.
>  >
>  > I guess the right way would be to detect user's charset (locale) and add
>  > appropriate MIME headers. Also, the Subject field should be encoded if
>  > it contains non-Ascii characters.
>
>  I just posted some patches to fix this; however, they always encode as
>  utf-8. I'm not sure what is the best way to find the user's encoding.
>  AIUI, locale environment variables are not enough, since, e.g., "en_US"
>  could come in iso8859-1 and utf-8 flavors. Is there a portable way to
>  figure this out? Should we be pulling it from .git/config?

I think so. There's no reason the message encoding necessarily matches the
locale anyway. There are ways to guess, but I think .git/config is sanest
with UTF-8 as the default.

j.