Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Only encode UTF-8 quoted printable mail headers

On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 13:35 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > As PERL uses its own internal character encoding, always calling > encode("utf8", ...) on the author name may cause corruption, leading to > an author signoff mismatch. [] > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl []

[PATCH] checkpatch: Only encode UTF-8 quoted printable mail headers

As PERL uses its own internal character encoding, always calling encode("utf8", ...) on the author name may cause corruption, leading to an author signoff mismatch. This happens in the following cases: - If a patch is in ISO-8859, and contains a non-ASCII author name in the From: line, it is