Re: Non-ascii mantainers

[Michal Suchanek]

On 1 December 2015 at 21:13, Andreas Mohr <andi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I don't really care if the maintainers are encoded or whatever.
>> However, neither get_maintainers nor git format-patch encodes them and
>> the listserver rejects them when not encoded.
>
> "neither ... nor" - IMHO transcoding should always be done at exactly *one* layer
> transition (namely prior to entering the layer which might happen to be
> using non-encoded same-char values as used by payload data as control chars,
> or which might happen to have a "reduced" encoding only requirement [think 7bit vs. 8bit],
> and only there, and of course also correctly [transcodes full set of
> control chars, and properly]). ;)
>
> So, since git-format-patch (according to git-format-patch(1)) itself
> declares that it does "Prepare patches for e-mail submission",
> it would seem that format-patch would definitely need to provide
> readily submittable content i.e.
> support submitting (i.e., generating) such content in *fully compatible* format
> (maybe it would not need to generate this as MIME encoding always
> - since there might be different encoding technologies to be chosen -
> but at least it should offer an encoding cmdline option,
> with this option then definitely defaulting to the mainstream choice, probably MIME).
> IOW, I would consider this to be a git-format-patch "missing crucial i18n support" bug
> (a bug for this should probably be filed).
>
> (and, due to my reasoning above, transcoding would *not* be the job of get_maintainers)
>

The transcoding would be normally the job of a MUA which is git
format-patch here. If it were really required, that is.

I am not sure what exactly is the position of the SMTP standard here
on 8bit headers. However, as with all RFCs it's suggested that you are
strict in what you send and lenient in what you accept. Here git
format-patch can be held responsible for lack of interoperability with
7-bit only SMTP servers and the LKML mail server for enforcing 7-bit
only in 2015 when most mail servers are 8-bit transparent.

Thanks

Michal
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