From: Siddharth Chandrasekaran <siddharth@embedjournal.com>
To: "gitster" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "git" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git-am fails for emails with UTF8 characters in email header
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:37:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16d2c3ccc40.b3c71baf1200589.723645117669598677@embedjournal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To:
Hi Junio,
My email server (zoho) puts leading UTF-8 non-breaking spaces ("\xC2\xA0")
when folding long mail headers. Due to this, git-am is failing as it expects
only '\t' or ' ' characters.
RFC2822 [1] on page 7 states:
> The general rule is that wherever this standard allows for folding white
> space (not simply WSP characters), a CRLF may be inserted before any WSP.
It appears the RFC isn't too strict about ASCII only headers (correct me if I'm
wrong here); ergo, if the mail file is in UTF-8, isn't logical to expect UTF-8
whitespace characters also to be allowed in the fold/unfold of headers?
I was able to get git-am to work with modifications to read_one_header_line()
in mailinfo.c need your view on whether a patch is necessary for this. If so, I can
send a patch for this.
Thanks
Sid.
Footnotes:
[1]: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
next reply other threads:[~2019-09-13 20:07 UTC|newest]
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2019-09-13 20:07 Siddharth Chandrasekaran [this message]
2019-09-13 22:20 ` git-am fails for emails with UTF8 characters in email header brian m. carlson
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