Messages in this thread | | | Date | 24 Jan 2002 08:59:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Why not "attach" patches? |
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hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 22.01.02 in <a2kac1$m0a$1@cesium.transmeta.com>:
> The common ground most people seems to be able to accept is: > > a. Go ahead and make patches as attachments, if your MUA makes it easier; > b. Be bloody certain they're text/plain attachments.
... and that they have Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit or 8bit.
*Not* quoted-printable or base64.
Which means that you lose if the patch contains chars whose 8th bit is set, if any MTA between you and Linus/Alan/etc. doesn't like that. Which is not quite unlikely. (But most MUAs won't allow you to send something like that anyway.)
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