From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <200511182245.01713.ismail@uludag.org.tr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181220350.13959@g5.osdl.org>

On Friday 18 November 2005 22:22, you wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> It's easy to say "just do the right thing", and ignore reality.
>
> git commit logs have always been "8-bit data". It's actually gitweb that
> is buggy if it claims it is UTF-8 without checking or converting it to
> such.
>
> I agree that UTF-8 is a good idea, but that's a totally different
> argument.

Maybe you could officially require all commit messages to be UTF-8 then the 
problem would be just solved for future commits at least. Until then it 
should be workarounded in gitweb I guess.

Regards
ismail