On 07/19/2017 05:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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: MichaÅ‚ MirosÅ‚aw <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".
Thanks for the diagnosis. Will do. -- ~Randy
