[PATCH] patch: decode e-mail headers

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Wed Oct 23 11:44:53 CDT 2013


On 10/23/2013 09:23 PM, Rafaël Carré wrote:
> I can look at other encodings but first I need to solve the problem
> mentioned in
> http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-October/054402.html
>
> That is user and subject are expected to use local encoding and not
> utf-8, which causes character loss when local encoding is ASCII (e.g. in
> the testsuite), and perhaps in other encodings too.
>
> It seems a bit hard problem for a newcomer to mercurial like me so any
> advice is very appreciated here.

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EncodingStrategy will give some advice 
in this area.

/Mads


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