Sending UTF-8 patches (was: [PATCH 2/2] Remove now-defunct ts7250 nand driver)

[jamie@shareable.org (Jamie Lokier)]

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> > I guess it's time for a "send-hook" to use a different setting
> > specially for Linux mailing lists.
> > 
> > Do you instead mean send the patch in UTF-8 embedded in a mail encoded
> > as 8859-1?  That sounds quite difficult, if the patch is inline rather
> > than attached.
> > 
> > An option to git-am to DTRT sounds infinitely better to me.  Shame
> > it's not there; unfortunately it doesn't emit enough information to
> > make it easy with a wrapper script.
> 
> I think your idea of enhancing git-am is really a good one, and I 
> certainly encourage you to submit a patch to git.  The utility actually 
> doing the work is git-mailinfo corresponding to builtin-mailinfo.c in 
> the Git source tree.

As I don't work with Git source and don't have enough time, I won't be
doing this, but I'd be delighted if someone else took the idea to the
Git people.  This thread could be used to explain why :-)

-- Jamie