Re: MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Teemu Likonen [off-list ref] wrote:

Junio C Hamano kirjoitti:

 > Samuel Tardieu [off-list ref] writes:
 > > Add MIME-Version/Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers in
 > > messages generated with git-format-patch. Without it, messages
 > > generated without using --attach or --inline didn't have any
 > > content type information.
 >
 > Isn't that job for send-email (or user's MUA)?  I really do not think
 > we want to clutter format-patch output any more than necessary.

 By the way, 'git send-email --compose' does not add MIME headers to
 introductory message. All non-Ascii chars will output something
 undefined in receivers' end.

 I guess the right way would be to detect user's charset (locale) and add
 appropriate MIME headers. Also, the Subject field should be encoded if
 it contains non-Ascii characters.

I stuck this in my config and it works-for-me:

[format]
	headers = \
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n\
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n\
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

Shrug. (Never tried putting non-ascii in the subject tho.)

j.