From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:04:42 GMT Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20051118200217.GA2831@vrfy.org> Hi, On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Kay Sievers wrote: > Yes, convince the git maintainers, that it's incredibly stupid not to > enforce utf8 in commit messages. It makes absolutely zero sense in a > SCM, which merges forth and back between people around the world to > allow random encodings from the last century. Oh, but it makes sense! Just because you happen to work on a very international project does not mean everybody does. Just because you happen to like utf-8 does not mean that you still do in 2046. The encoding-du-jour might well be a 64-bit wide char code by then, since they'll laugh about our dreaming about terabytes. BTW, utf-8 was designed on purpose to be easily distinguishable from other encodings so that you don't have to rely on every document obeying a certain encoding. Hth, Dscho