[pacman-dev] [PATCH] small fix in bindings directory

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/26/06, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 26 Oct 2006 19:48:18 +0400, Sergej Pupykin <ps at lx-ltd.ru>:
> >
> >  SP> I found that russian utf8 text not handled properly by at least some mail
> >  SP> servers (and may be clients).
> >
> >  SP> I sent AUR translation diff to paul<at>archlinux.org as atached file and
> >  SP> after several tries I gzip it to avoid data corruption...
> >
> >  SP> But I still do not know what cause this problem...
> >
> > Of cause if diff contains only ascii, it can be used safely
>
> Should I remove my sign with Cyrillic UTF-8 chars from messages with
> patches then?

Naw, as long as it's not in the diff - and even then it would still
work just won't DISPLAY right. diff's are bounded.  It has a beginning
"+++ ---" and then it says "use the next Y lines".  You can have as
much garbage as you want above and below them.  This was done
intentionally, so that diffs could be included directly in emails.