Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Nov 18, 2005, 20:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20051118200217.GA2831@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511182127.06958.ismail@uludag.org.tr>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:27:06PM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:

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> On Friday 18 November 2005 19:26, you wrote:
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 18:33, you wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to parse git's rss feed and now xml parsers seems to choke on
> > > it because of an error in the produced feed. Looking at
> > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=rs
> > >s
> > >
> > > line 781 says :
> > >
> > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David G\363mez wrote:<br/>
> > >
> > > which is part of the commit :
> > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=co
> > >mm it;h=05b8b0fafd4cac75d205ecd5ad40992e2cc5934d
> >
> > Ok looks like this text is latin-1 encoded although xml is served as utf-8.
> 
> Any comments on this?

Yes, convince the git maintainers, that it's incredibly stupid not to enforce utf8 in commit messages. It makes absolutely zero sense in a SCM, which merges forth and back between people around the world to allow random encodings from the last century.

I still can't believe that this is a subject for discussion, in a software developed in the year 2005.

With the next round of gitweb, I will substitute these caracters with valid utf8, which will show up as invalid chars.

And git guys, please start to think again about your insane options, that cause more harm than anything good.

Thanks, Kay