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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:35:56 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        Yuri Victorovich <yuri@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 1181d23c283c - =?us-ascii?Q?main_?= =?us-ascii?Q?-_=3D=3Futf-8=3FQ=3Ftextproc=2Friffdiff?= =?us-ascii?Q?=3A?= update 3.4.1 =E2=86=92 3.4.2; update pager dependency =
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 06:30:31PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Git handles unicode characters like the arrow you put in, but mlmmj
> doesn't. I thought we'd decided a while back to stick with ASCII whenever
> possible in commit messages? [...]
> 
> Personally I'm a fan of UTF-8 in commit messages, but IIRC Bapt explained
> a while back why mlmmj has to assume otherwise.

While I'm strictly pro-ASCII for commit messages (and email), I recall that
this particular bug is triggered by Git "subject" line (<cat>/<port>: ...)
so as long as it is 7-bit, the rest can still be UTF-8 if one pleases, CMIW.

./danfe


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