Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Actually, the real bug is not to try to prevent binary nonsense in
> > textual commit logs, which are distibuted. Remember, that you provide a
> > SCM not a filesystem.
>
> I never said they were text, and in fact, I never even said I'm doing an
> SCM. Quite the reverse. I very much said that I'm doing a filesystem that
> is flexible.
>
> The fact that the headers are text-like is not so much about text as it is
> about flexibility and easy tool access. If you look at the git object
> format, for example, the header is strictly NUL-terminated ASCII, but the
> object itself is a pure binary data stream. Which obviously just _happens_
> to often be text too, since quite often the object contents is something
> like a C source file, but there's a real power to _not_ thinking that it
> means that files are text-files.
>
> And I like UTF-8, but the fact is, all my editors and mail tools are still
> Latin-1. My editor converts the UTF-8 input into latin1 and keeps it in
> that format on disk (it writes it to the _screen_ as UTF-1 just to make
> the glyphs come out right, but the file it works with is still latin1).
>
> Could I change? Yup, I could change pretty easily. I wrote the code that
> did the latin1 conversion, and I've got source for my tools, so I could
> just decide one day that I'll join the 21st century and switch. I just
> haven't done so yet.
>
> The fact that _I_ can't be bothered, even though I'm in just about the
> best possible situation (I've got a keyboard with åäö on it, but they're
> not in my name, so I don't use them that much) should tell you something.
> Namely, it should tell you that there's a _lot_ of people who have a much
> harder time than I do in changing their setups.
>
> I think most of Asia _still_ doesn't use utf-8. And I _guarantee_ you that
> it's a hell of a lot easier for you to complain about it and say "they
> should" than it is for them to actually do so and convert all the programs
> they use.
>
> On this mailing list, the only person that I've seen pipe up about these
> things in the past _and_ that I suspect actually has to work with this
> thing in real life (instead of just from a theoretical "this is how things
> should be done" standpoint) is Junio. And last I heard (if I remember
> correctly), Junio explicitly said that a lot of the people he works with
> still use shift-jis.
>
> And I'm not surprised. Look on the web. As far as I know, shift-jis is
> still much more common than utf-8.
>
> AND IT DOESN'T MATTER ONE WHIT WHEN SOME GEEK SAYS "THEY SHOULDN'T DO
> THAT, THEN"!
>
> Software should conform to people, not the other way around.