Encoding of kde-commits mails

[Thiago Macieira]

Harri Porten wrote:
>This might appear like a rather academic issue to some but I'm using a
>mail server written by rather pedantic people which turns a cosmetic
> issue into a fatal one for me :)

Then you can rightfully shout at people who commit non-UTF-8 code to our 
repository.

>marking the message as utf-8 encoded but does not ensure that the body
>really uses this encoding. 

It assumes the code is properly UTF-8 encoded (and it should be).

>for decode_utf8() that will replace malformed characters by \xHH. The
>result will then be converted by encode_utf8() for insertion into the
>mail. I volunteer to prepare a patch - hopefully assisted by Thiago who
>added the already existing validity check :)

Sure, that would be even better. The only problem is that the post-commit 
script is rather memory intensive at the moment. This operation wouldn't 
be really helping.

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