Re: Non-ascii mantainers

[Michal Suchanek]

On 7 December 2015 at 10:18, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 1 December 2015 at 18:20, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:10:29PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>>> there are non-ascii characters in output of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
>>>>
>>>> If output of said script is used as --to in git format-patch the patch
>>>> is rejected by this list.
>>>
>>> Try to reproduce that in a UTF8 locale...
>>
>> I am using UTF-8 locale since ages.
>>
>> The characters show correctly in my terminal. I have no problem with
>> that. The e-mail is then just rejected by the list server.
>>
>> 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.
>
> I always pass the --to and --cc to git send-email, not to format-patch, and
> that works:
>
>     git send-email \
>     --to "MÃns RullgÃrd <mans@xxxxxxxxx>" \
>     --to "David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" \
>     --cc "netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
>     --cc "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
>     *00*
>
> becomes:
>
>     From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     To: =?UTF-8?q?M=C3=A5ns=20Rullg=C3=A5rd?= <mans@xxxxxxxxx>,
>             "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>             linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>             Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Subject: [PATCH] ethernet: aurora: AURORA_NB8800 should depend on HAS_DMA
>     Date: Mon,  7 Dec 2015 10:09:06 +0100
>     Message-Id: <1449479346-32601-1-git-send-email-geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1
>

I don't use git send-email because I do not have access to a working
SMTP server directly.

There is an option to use a sendmail binary instead of a SMTP server
address so I can try faking that I guess.

Thanks

Michal
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