On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Your mailer is crap, and destroys utf-8 characters. In particular:
>
> -M: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
Using pseudo-MIME-encoding, that was actually (before my cut-and-paste
mangled it even more):
Micha=c3=85=c2=82 Miros=c3=85=c2=82aw
> should be
>
> -M: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
And the correct utf-8 is
Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw
and it *looks* like what happened is that something thought the input
was Latin1, and converted the Latin1 to UTF-8.
So the utf-8 character 'ł' (two bytes: =C5=82) was seen as two Latin1
character bytes: =c5 and =82.
And then each of those were converted mindlessly to utf-8, so the 'c5'
character became '=C3=85' and the '82' character became '=c2=82'.
So you have something that believes that a source file was latin1.
May I suggest just making absolutely *everything* on your system use a
utf-8 locale?
Because in this day and age, anything but utf-8 is just woefully
broken crud. "Just say no".
Linus
