Re: Problem with "From:" line on "git format-patch" generated patches

["Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, André Goddard Rosa
<andre.goddard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
>
>    When I generate patches using "git format-patch" it always makes
> my name garbled in the "From:" line
> as shown below. I'm using openSUSE 11.2 RC 1 (x86_64) with the
> following settings:
>
>        # locale charmap
>        UTF-8
>        # echo $LANG
>        en_US.UTF-8
>
>    I've tried changing my environment to use another encoding like
> ISO-8859-1, but it didn't work as well.
>
>    Does someone can explain why does this happens? Any suggestions?
>
> P.s.: the problem never occurs on the commit message (Signed-off-by)
>
>
>>> >From 584d9bfc7c1d41b76a05655b4562b98fcbef6ee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:09:06 -0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] vsprintf: factor out skip_space code in a
>>> separate function
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

This is the normal encoding for email headers where you cannot use
8bit characters. You have to use a 7bit characters with this
=?UTF-8... encoding.

You can check the From: line in your mail, the mail I'm replying:

From:	=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Goddard_Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>

At the other hand the tools using the output of git-format-patch must
deal with this all, as they do. git-am handles it well, if not it's a
bug that should be reported.

HTH,
Santi