On 22 March 2012 19:31, Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org wrote:
Now I've had a chance to look into this, it seems that the plague of question marks actually seems to arise out of an interaction between Mutt and my unusual locale settings. Basically if your locale settings don't support the no-breaking space character then Mutt when quoting text for replies will default to a charset which doesn't have it, and will replace all non-representable characters with ?
So, it seems that this should only affect people whose mail client settings exclude modern charsets like ISO-8859-n and UTF-8 (in my case, this was an unintentional side-effect).
Yeah, most people these days don't seem to notice because their clients can cope with the non-breaking-space, but it's still pretty poor on gmail's part to be mangling the text in the first place (not least because it leaves you open to old-school email types who might choose to flame for quoted-printable). On the other hand I have gone at least a year replying to patches on qemu-devel like this without getting any complaints, so maybe all the old-school types have finally got a unicode aware mail client :-)
-- PMM