Re: [PATCH] proc: fixup (c) sign

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu Apr 12 2018 - 15:50:34 EST


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:14:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Andrew's scripts butchered it :-(
>
> Oh, it's not just Andrew.
>
> Git will fix up commit messages etc, but the actual *patch* will be
> considered just "data". So if you send me Latin1 (like you did), I get
> a patch with Latin1.
>
> Please just fix your broken mail environment, and move to the current
> century. Use a real utf-8 locale.
>
> You seem to be using Mutt. Afaik, that should automatically honor your
> locale, and use utf-8,
>
> But maybe you have it trying to send in Latin1 by default if that
> works. Just do something like
>
> set file_charset="utf-8:iso-8859-1"
>
> to make utf-8 the preferred format.

I've checked earlier mails, mutt has been "guessing" outgoing encoding
by default. Let's try again.