linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] PCI fixes for v4.15

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Message-ID: <56549a5e-e752-68eb-4f60-f6bb6b21284e@amd.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:27:01 +0100
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Grayson <jpgrayson@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@...il.com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] PCI fixes for v4.15

Am 24.01.2018 um 17:40 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
>>> Bjorn, maybe you can send Catalin an example mbox?
>> Attaching the one I used above.
> Heh. That's a mess. It has
>
>      Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> but then the name in the body is actually Latin1-encoded if I read it correctly.

Yes, looks like it.

> Git will auto-convert invalid utf-8 by assuming it is latin1, so it
> all ends up working, but Christian did something wrong in his mailer
> too.

The mailer I used was just "git send-email" and I just confirmed with 
hexdump that my .gitconfig contains the name in utf-8.

And when I use "git format-patch" the resulting file contains the name 
in utf-8 as well.

So, no idea when that got translated to latin1.

Regards,
Christian.