On 22 March 2012 19:31, Dave Martin <dave.mar...@linaro.org> wrote: > Now I've had a chance to look into this, it seems that the plague of > question marks actually seems to arise out of an interaction between > Mutt and my unusual locale settings. Basically if your locale settings > don't support the no-breaking space character then Mutt when quoting > text for replies will default to a charset which doesn't have it, and > will replace all non-representable characters with ? > > So, it seems that this should only affect people whose mail client > settings exclude modern charsets like ISO-8859-n and UTF-8 (in my case, > this was an unintentional side-effect).
Yeah, most people these days don't seem to notice because their clients can cope with the non-breaking-space, but it's still pretty poor on gmail's part to be mangling the text in the first place (not least because it leaves you open to old-school email types who might choose to flame for quoted-printable). On the other hand I have gone at least a year replying to patches on qemu-devel like this without getting any complaints, so maybe all the old-school types have finally got a unicode aware mail client :-) -- PMM _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
