Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 19, 2005, 01:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181653191.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vek5deam6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Pulls are "too late, sorry you have to live with it"; for
> patches, mailinfo and am have -u (I do not remember if I added
> it to applymbox -- I do not use applymbox anymore myself).

It's in applymbox too, although the default is not to use it (and applymbox only supports the short "-u" form, not the "--utf8" one).

> Maybe we should make -u the default and countermand with -U to
> encourage the use of utf8 further?

Probably.

Although right now "-u" doesn't actually _force_ a conversion: if you have an email with 8-bit characters and no character set mentioned, it will silently just do nothing, and the end result won't be valid UTF-8 after all.

I think. You're the one who wrote all the conversion stuff ;)

If we want utf-8, we should probably force it, and default to the latin1 translation (with some way to specify alternatives).

			Linus