From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:35:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <437EAB85.7030506@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v64qpco40.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I just looked at the diff this commit introduces:
> 
> 	e6bd23911efd0a2bd756c77d9e7ba6576eb739a1
>         Documentation: asciidoc sources are utf-8
> 
> with gitk (BTW, I pulled from paulus today, so "master" branch
> has the latest gitk) while my locale set to LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8.
> 
> Surprisingly, the diff to Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt,
> which changes Lukas' name originally incorrectly encoded in
> iso-8859-1 to utf-8, was shown and both pre-image and post-image
> lines are readable.
> 
> I do not know how tcl/tk does it, but it is doing the right
> thing.
> 

Tcl/Tk assumes that anything that isn't valid UTF-8 is Latin-1.

	-hpa