Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:
Well, that one actually has at least two reasons why it might work well: Well, that one actually has at least two reasons why it might work well: - Rafa=C5=82 sends his patches with an explicit "From:" line in the body of the email itself (probably because he has had problems with email headers in the past). - Also, even ignoring that, he actually uses utf-8 in the headers too, so his "From" header line looks like too, so his "From" header line looks like From: =3D?UTF-8?q?Rafa=3DC5=3D82=3D20Mi=3DC5=3D82ecki?=3D <zajec5@gma= il.com>
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so it is already in UTF-8, it just is rfc2047-encoded.
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https://git.kernel.org/linus/88001968245cWell, that one actually has at least two reasons why it might work well: Well, that one actually has at least two reasons why it might work well: - Rafa=C5=82 sends his patches with an explicit "From:" line in the body of the email itself (probably because he has had problems with email headers in the past). - Also, even ignoring that, he actually uses utf-8 in the headers too, so his "From" header line looks like too, so his "From" header line looks like From: =3D?UTF-8?q?Rafa=3DC5=3D82=3D20Mi=3DC5=3D82ecki?=3D <zajec5@gma= il.com>
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so it is already in UTF-8, it just is rfc2047-encoded.