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From: Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org>
To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
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Subject: Re: Problems submitting patch containing UTF-8 characters
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 05:08:03AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> I recently ran into a problem submitting a PR containing UTF-8
> characters, they ended up garbled, so the maintainer couldn't apply the
> patch cleanly.

GNATS, unfortunately, records no information about character encoding.
To make matters worse, it actually removes many headers from e-mail
replies, meaning query-pr.cgi can usually only work on guesses and
assumptions.

Headers are however preserved inside MIME parts, and if there are any of
these headers, they are used; but in this case your MUA hasn't included
encoding information here.

Shaun

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