Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 02/05/2015 04:49 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:27:23PM +0800, Zhu Guihua wrote:
>>> This series is based on the previous patchset from Chen Fan:
>>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02360.html
>> 
>> This email has an invalid charset:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="y"
>> 
>> I guess you entered "y" when asked how the message was encoded.
>> 
>> Please don't do that, it means we can only guess at the charset.
>
> In the past, people made a similar problem when 'git send-email' was
> asking if a message was in-reply-to something else (the number of
> messages incorrectly threaded to a message-id of 'y' or 'n' was evidence
> of the poor quality of the question).  git.git commit 51bbccfd1b4a
> corrected that problem.  Sounds like charset encoding is another case
> where the interactive parser should be taught to balk at nonsense
> encoding answers?

I think I answered this in $gmane/263354; care to come up with a
plausible valid_re?  It is inpractical to attempt to cover all valid
charset names, so whatever you do I'd imagine you would want to pass
the confirm_only parameter set to true.



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