[PATCH 8/8] SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
From: Josh Soref via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2023-12-19 08:42:10
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Josh Soref <redacted> Git documentation does this with the exception of ancient release notes. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <redacted> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index b4fa52ae348..3c53592cfc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ message to an external program, and this is a handy way to drive `git am`. However, if the message is MIME encoded, what is piped into the program is the representation you see in your `*Article*` buffer after unwrapping MIME. This is often not what -you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non ASCII +you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non-ASCII characters (most notably in people's names), and also whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running "C-u g" to display the message in raw form before using "|" to run the pipe can work
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