Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

> Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr> writes:
> >> 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.
>
> No, that's something I will *not* do.
>
> Linus is right --- he is always right but he is slightly more
> right than he usually is in this particular case ;-).
>
> We allow any 8-bit data in commit log messages.  We even make it
> easier to use utf-8 than other encodings, and we encourage use
> of utf-8 for obvious reasons.  But we do not go further than
> that.  Any patch to change commit-tree.c to reject binary data
> in a commit log message that utf-8 validator chokes at *will* be
> rejected.
>
> Go back to the list archive.  Dig out messages on this topic.
> Summarize the ones that say why we encourage utf-8 in textual
> commit log messages, submit a patch to add that to
> Documentation/howto/ or perhaps Documentation/tutorial.txt, to
> further encourage people to use utf-8.  Just do not forbid non
> utf-8 text nor binary data in general.