Hallo Andreas, Yasushi, On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:04:51 +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote: > 2016-10-24 15:45 GMT+02:00 Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de>: > > My understanding is that --charset should match what is used in the > > patches themselves. The value is used for the Content-Type header of > > each message and there is no conversion done. > > Indeed. On systems using UTF-8, that header should automatically be > set appropriately; on other systems, the ISO-8859-15 character set is > assumed. > > Headers are supposed to be 7-bit only, so we need to encode recipient > addresses with special characters. (This still doesn't catch special > characters in the subject, but that doesn't seem to be a very bit > problem at least.) > > > It is also passed to the edmail helper script, which uses it to encode > > the recipient names. But that is an internal detail which I don't think > > the user needs to know. In fact I don't know why edmail needs to know > > the charset used for the body, if the recipient fields end up being > > encoded anyway it might as well always use UTF-8? But that's a somewhat > > different topic, and I'm not familiar with email encoding so I could be > > plain wrong. > > The Content-Type header still needs to be added to messages.
But this is done by the mail command script directly, not the edmail helper script. > > Andreas, what would be a good description for the mail --charset > > option? "Specify the character encoding of the patches."? > > The --charset option allows to specify a particular message encoding > on systems which don't use UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15. So... --charset Specify a particular message encoding on systems which don't use UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15. This character encoding must match the one used in the patches. Are we good with this? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev