linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: fixup (c) sign

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Message-ID: <20180412195024.GA17810@avx2>
Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:50:24 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fixup (c) sign

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:14:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> > Andrew's scripts butchered it :-(
> 
> Oh, it's not just Andrew.
> 
> Git will fix up commit messages etc, but the actual *patch* will be
> considered just "data". So if you send me Latin1 (like you did), I get
> a patch with Latin1.
> 
> Please just fix your broken mail environment, and move to the current
> century. Use a real utf-8 locale.
> 
> You seem to be using Mutt. Afaik, that should automatically honor your
> locale, and use utf-8,
> 
> But maybe you have it trying to send in Latin1 by default if that
> works. Just do something like
> 
>     set file_charset="utf-8:iso-8859-1"
> 
> to make utf-8 the preferred format.

I've checked earlier mails, mutt has been "guessing" outgoing encoding
by default. Let's try again.