hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 22.01.02 in <a2kac1$m0a$1@cesium.transmeta.com>:
> The common ground most people seems to be able to accept is:
>
> a. Go ahead and make patches as attachments, if your MUA makes it easier;
> b. Be bloody certain they're text/plain attachments.
... and that they have Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit or 8bit.
*Not* quoted-printable or base64.
Which means that you lose if the patch contains chars whose 8th bit is
set, if any MTA between you and Linus/Alan/etc. doesn't like that. Which
is not quite unlikely. (But most MUAs won't allow you to send something
like that anyway.)
MfG Kai
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