Subject: Re: b4: unicode control characters -- warn or remove?

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 19:09:05 +0000

Konstantin Ryabitsev <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> Per exhibit a, what should we do in the situation where we discover unicode
> control characters in an email?
> 
> 1. Warn and strip these chars out, because they are extremely unlikely to be
>    doing anything legitimate in the context of a patch (unless someone is
>    sending patches for docs actually written in RTL languages)
> 2. Warn and error out, refusing to produce an mbox
> 3. Just warn and produce an mbox anyway
> 
> I'd normally do #3, but with many people piping things to git-am, I'm not sure
> if it's the safest choice.
> 
> Exibit a: https://lwn.net/Articles/874546/

+Cc: git@vger

IMHO, defense for this belongs in git-am (which already checks
things like whitespace).