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

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:31:16PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:

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 just posted some patches to fix this; however, they always encode as
utf-8. I'm not sure what is the best way to find the user's encoding.
AIUI, locale environment variables are not enough, since, e.g., "en_US"
could come in iso8859-1 and utf-8 flavors. Is there a portable way to
figure this out? Should we be pulling it from .git/config? Neither the
commitEncoding nor the logOutputEncoding really makes sense to reuse.

-Peff