GNU bug report logs - #47023
df utilility displays G instead of GM as unit size for Gigabytes in power of 1000

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From: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: Glenn Golden <gdg <at> zplane.com>, Coreutils <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#47023: df utilility displays G instead of GM as unit size
 for Gigabytes in power of 1000
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:50:50 -0800

On 2021/03/10 14:09, Glenn Golden wrote:
>
>> Second, minor, side rant:
>>    Would be nice if more attention was paid to fixing mailers encoding
>>    "Pádraig" and "Bénézech" as "P�draig" and "B�n�zech"
>>
> 
> If you see substitute encodings like that, it strongly suggests the problem
> is your MUA, not mine. 
----
It's yours.

You are using a local 8-bit encoding, whereas everyone else was
using UTF-8.  Your mailer re-encoded their messages into one
of the 8-bit western encodings, whereas most people use UTF-8
these days, so while their original messages with accents came
through just fine in UTF-8, your re-encoding into Western didn't
display properly.

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