From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:08:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <200511182208.24248.ismail@uludag.org.tr>
In-Reply-To: <20051118200217.GA2831@vrfy.org>

On Friday 18 November 2005 22:02, you wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:27:06PM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > 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 totally agree, utf8 should be default else the produced XML is wrong. Its 
advertised as utf-8 but the content is latin1. 

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

When should we expect this? Currently I can't parse commit feed without 
encoding to utf8 first.

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

Can git maintainer(s) comment on this please? 

Regards,
ismail