On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 05:04:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:49:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> > >> I suspect you're editing your mailbox, or you're using some broken > >> mailer setup, or something (using some broken "export" function?), > >> because you're corrupting Christian's name all the time: > > > > I'm not editing my mailbox, but I am using stgit. The "From:" header > > uses encoded-word syntax for Christian's name, and I think stgit is > > not decoding that when applying the patch. > > Ahh. Ok, that would explain it. > > > When I save the patch email message from mutt (or gmail, for that > > matter), I see: > > > > From: "=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=" ... > > Yes. That's the standard locale encoding format for header values > (mainly subject and author), since the > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > only applies to the *body* of the email. > > So then the email handling tools have to handle that correctly, and as > you noticed, "git am" does so: > > > Applying that patch with "git am" results in the correct > > > > Author: Christian König > But apparently stgit does not: > > > Applying the identical patch with "stg import -M" results in > > > > Author: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?= > > I'm adding Peter Grayson and Catalin Marinas to the participants, > since they seem to be the main stgit developers. > > Presumably there is either a flag for this (which should presumably be > the default). Or if not, maybe stgit can just be fixed? > > [ I go off looking at the stgit sources. ] > > Oddly, stgit seems to even have a *testcase* for this: > > - t/t1800-import/email-qp: > > From: Inge =?utf-8?q?Str=C3=B6m?= > > and that test-case harkens back to 2006. I wonder why it doesn't seem > to work for you and Christian. > > Bjorn, maybe you can send Catalin an example mbox? Attaching the one I used above.