I have no doubt that some MUA around would forget to do the conversion.
FWIW, one reason that I invariably use patch(1) to apply submitted patches
is that it will take care of stripping any CRs that may have snuck in.
So I'm not particularly fussed about the problem.
Good to know.
I'm not excited about encouraging people to use application/octet-stream
rather than text/something for submitted patches.
I'm not happy with that either, it is just to avoid complaints.
If you use text then the patch can easily be examined in the web
archives; with application/octet-stream the patch has to be downloaded,
adding a lot of manual overhead.
Indeed.
(At least, that's true with my preferred web browser, maybe it's
different for other people?)
So if I send with text/x-diff or text/plain I've got complaints, if I send
with application/octet-stream, it is not right either:-) Everybody being
somehow right.
Sigh.
--
Fabien.
