On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Your mailer is crap, and destroys utf-8 characters. In particular: > > -M: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl>
Using pseudo-MIME-encoding, that was actually (before my cut-and-paste mangled it even more): Micha=c3=85=c2=82 Miros=c3=85=c2=82aw > should be > > -M: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl> And the correct utf-8 is Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw and it *looks* like what happened is that something thought the input was Latin1, and converted the Latin1 to UTF-8. So the utf-8 character 'ł' (two bytes: =C5=82) was seen as two Latin1 character bytes: =c5 and =82. And then each of those were converted mindlessly to utf-8, so the 'c5' character became '=C3=85' and the '82' character became '=c2=82'. So you have something that believes that a source file was latin1. May I suggest just making absolutely *everything* on your system use a utf-8 locale? Because in this day and age, anything but utf-8 is just woefully broken crud. "Just say no". Linus