On 30 Sep 2012, at 16:19, Shaun Amott <sh...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 05:08:03AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: >> I recently ran into a problem submitting a PR containing UTF-8 >> characters, they ended up garbled, so the maintainer couldn't apply the >> patch cleanly. > > GNATS, unfortunately, records no information about character encoding. > To make matters worse, it actually removes many headers from e-mail > replies, meaning query-pr.cgi can usually only work on guesses and > assumptions. > > Headers are however preserved inside MIME parts, and if there are any of > these headers, they are used; but in this case your MUA hasn't included > encoding information here. > > Shaun > > -- > Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A > "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin > of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson The question remains though, why is it trying to re-encode characters as UTF8 when it just received what should be 8bit ASCII to it (passing it through transparently should work)? Especially in case of a binary attachment (which it shows correctly in base64 encoded form but tries to UTF-8 encode on download). To me this looks like a (web server?) configuration issue._______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
