Re: [nmh-commits] [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.8-RC1-9-g68228e3c

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ken,

>           man/burst.man: re-word to avoid ‘digestifying’, etc.
...
> when the email is sent out about the change I get them a little
> mangled because the script that notifies about changes doesn't mark
> that email as UTF-8.

Agreed, it doesn't.  They arrive as valid UTF-8 here which show just
fine so I hadn't noticed a problem, but it's clearly wrong.  I expect
it's a bug in the script but have forgotten where is it to be found.

> It looks like you CAN mark the encoding of commits using the config
> variable i18n.commitEncoding, although this suggests the default is
> UTF-8 and when I look at all the commit encodings they are blank, so
> maybe I don't quite understand it?

git-commit(1) covers it.  The default for the log message is UTF-8.  If
the i18n.commitEncoding you gave is set then its value is copied into
the commit's header.  If that header isn't present then the log message
is UTF-8.

> I don't know if that would change the encoding marked in the
> notification email.

I doubt it.  I think the script probably pre-dates the popularity of
UTF-8.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.