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[Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Mar 27 20:29:30 CEST 2011 
Am 27.03.2011 17:06, schrieb skip at pobox.com:
> It seems that all checkin mails are utf-8-encoded.  This makes it
> challenging to view checkin mails if you have a text-based mail reader.  (I
> use VM within XEmacs.  XEmacs doesn't seem to support utf-8 out of the box.
> I believe you need to add MULE to it.)  Is there some reason such messages
> can't be encoded in ASCII unless a non-ASCII message body is detected?

Even if it was easy to change, I'd advise against doing so. IIUC, we use
the standard email hook from the Mercurial sources, to change it would
mean to fork it. Users with email readers that can't display UTF-8 at
all (even if the characters are all ASCII) will need to find a way of
coping with that.

Regards,
Martin
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