Hi Wolfgang,
The copies cc-ed to myself come through just fine as utf-8 fwiw. Does that imply the denx.de servers convert unicode messages to base64?
This is in the headers of your message:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
I don't think anything converted anything. It arrived as you sent it.
'git send-email' cc-ed me a copy of the patch as well as sent it to the mailing list. The copy cc-ed directly to me had the following headers:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
However, the copy received from denx.de had the headers:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by xes-inc.com id n3OL05sk002907
Based on the "Autoconverted" line my guess is the email from denx.de was in base64 and our email server automatically converted it to 8bit encoding.
You just don't see it.
I (think I) see base64 coming from denx.de, but not from our mail server.
The headers imply that a server outside xes-inc.com converted the 8bit/utf-8 message into base64/utf-8. Perhaps denx.de doesn't support the 8BITMIME SMTP extension? Or something along those lines? Or am I missing something?
The problem for me is that I cannot use standard tools (like grep) on such messages.
If the messages were encoded in 8bit mode instead of base64 they should still be grep-able (other than the unicode chars).
Best, Peter