From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:13:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511200512470.12306@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511191901560.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (In Finnish/Swedish, the letter 'ä' is code \x00E4, which in UTF-8 is the 
> sequence \xA5\xC3. But you can't know if a text that has that sequence is 
> UTF-8, or if it's a strange two-character latin1 sequence of "Ã¥" 
> (character codes \x00A5 and \x00C3).
> 
> But I can pretty much guarantee that most any _sane_ latin1 text will 
> obviously not be UTF-8, so in _practice_ you can definitely tell the two 
> apart.

Thank you,
Dscho