From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:05:10 GMT Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml? Message-ID: 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