From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:25:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <7v7jb5hcm2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200511182245.01713.ismail@uludag.org.tr>

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.