Re: b4: unicode control characters -- warn or remove?

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Konstantin Ryabitsev:

> Per exhibit a, what should we do in the situation where we discover unicode
> control characters in an email?
>
> 1. Warn and strip these chars out, because they are extremely unlikely to be
>    doing anything legitimate in the context of a patch (unless someone is
>    sending patches for docs actually written in RTL languages)
> 2. Warn and error out, refusing to produce an mbox
> 3. Just warn and produce an mbox anyway
>
> I'd normally do #3, but with many people piping things to git-am, I'm
> not sure if it's the safest choice.

It's probably best to coordinate such steps with people who use RTL
script in patches.  In practice, this might mean deferring to whatever
mechanisms the Unicode folks come up with.

Thanks,
Florian