[tz] [PATCH 5/5] Standardize zone table comment format

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Mar 1 16:57:34 UTC 2016


On 03/01/2016 02:37 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
>
> Some of those patches look a little odd when viewed in an MUA anyway 
> (Thunderbird or Icedove in my case), as the MIME charset is declared 
> as windows-1252, but the actual text is UTF-8.  (That's most prevalent 
> in the changes to zone1970.tab by PATCH 10/10.)

Unfortunately some of the patches were still messed up, at least as 
received here. Patch 04 was double-encoded: it said "Content-Type: 
text/plain; charset=UTF-8" and "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 
quoted-printable" and the body contained strings like 
"Tucum=C3=83=C2=A1n", which decode to "Tucumán" instead of to the 
correct "Tucumán". As Ian notes, patch 10 was double-encoded in a 
different way: it said "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252" 
and "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" and contained strings 
like "Le=C3=B3n", which decode to "León" instead of to the correct 
"León". I hope I fixed the decoding errors correctly before installing 
this stuff into the experimental version on GitHub.

> I generally use git send-email to send inline patches.

Me too.  And when attaching non-ASCII patches, I try to remember to 
rename the patch from FOO.patch to FOO.txt so that Thunderbird doesn't 
mess up the encoding.


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