Re: [Virtual PATCH] Add an option to wrap a patch in <pre> in git-imap-send which ironically results in a cleaner patch from Thunderbird.

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

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What worries me the most is if there is any guarantee that this bug you
are exploiting to force it to send a patch in the common denominator
format _will not be fixed_ in future versions of Thunderbird.

It's not a bug, it's a feature ;)

In fact it really is: preformatted text in HTML (<pre>) is by definition
left alone. Now, when you are about to send an HTML mail TB asks you
what to do (or takes a choice from preferences/addressbook): send as
HTML, as text or both.

Ok, "TB asks you what to do and you choose 'text-only'" is the part I
missed.  In that case, I'd agree it definitely is a feature not to use
flowed to convert that <pre>..</pre> to a plain text.  Thanks for an
explanation.

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I see your patch deals only with ampersand, less-than, greater-than and
dquot.  Do you know if this is enough, or would letters outside US-ASCII
need to be expressed in ampersand-hash "character reference" notation?

According to Ben of Mozilla fame this is enough for special characters.
I don't know about UTF-8, though. Usually, TB recognizes the proper
encoding.

Yeah, anything outside US-ASCII.  That was what I was wondering about.