Someone has asked this in the past it seems
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg245469.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/263349

It is a git bug as you said. y yes etc should all result in the default.

Anyway we will wait for henri's input on the 3 patches :)

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com> wrote:

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Am 2015-02-13 um 15:11 schrieb Martell Malone:
> When I done the git send email it asked did I want to use UTF-8
> which I said "y" to.
Yeah, I think that's what happened. The prompt did not ask you a yes
or no question. You could e.g. have put ISO8859-8 there. To use the
suggested default just press enter.

You could consider filing a git bug about a user interface gotcha that
could be fixed :-) .
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