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Change encoding of RSS feed to latin-1

Subject: Change encoding of RSS feed to latin-1

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Ismail Donmez· Nov 19, 2005, 19:56 UTC · lore

Ok,

As the other thread grew into merits of using UTF-8 I think best fix for now is putting encoding=latin-1 into RSS feed so everyone is happy. After all its latin-1 encoded data not utf-8. Anyone disagrees? Can we now please fix/change gitweb so xml parsers can parse it without workarounding?

Regards, ismail

Nikolai Weibull· Nov 19, 2005, 20:14 UTC · re: Ismail Donmez · lore

Re: Change encoding of RSS feed to latin-1

Ismail Donmez wrote:

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> As the other thread grew into merits of using UTF-8 I think best fix
> for now is putting encoding=latin-1 into RSS feed so everyone is
> happy. After all its latin-1 encoded data not utf-8. Anyone disagrees?
> Can we now please fix/change gitweb so xml parsers can parse it
> without workarounding?

If you know that your log-messages will be in latin-1 or UTF-8 or whatever encoding you like, then modify your gitweb.cgi to match. Just search for 'utf-8' and change it to what you prefer.

What perhaps is of general interest is modifying the distributed gitweb.cgi to allow for easily changing the encoding on a per-installation basis, just like $projectroot is configurable on a per-installation basis.

UTF-8 is still a sane default for gitweb.cgi.

        nikolai

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Ismail Donmez· Nov 19, 2005, 20:18 UTC · re: Nikolai Weibull · lore

Re: Change encoding of RSS feed to latin-1

Saturday 19 November 2005 22:14 tarihinde, Nikolai Weibull şunları yazmıştı:

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> Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > As the other thread grew into merits of using UTF-8 I think best fix
> > for now is putting encoding=latin-1 into RSS feed so everyone is
> > happy. After all its latin-1 encoded data not utf-8. Anyone disagrees?
> > Can we now please fix/change gitweb so xml parsers can parse it
> > without workarounding?
>
> If you know that your log-messages will be in latin-1 or UTF-8 or
> whatever encoding you like, then modify your gitweb.cgi to match.  Just
> search for 'utf-8' and change it to what you prefer.
>
> What perhaps is of general interest is modifying the distributed
> gitweb.cgi to allow for easily changing the encoding on a
> per-installation basis, just like $projectroot is configurable on a
> per-installation basis.
>
> UTF-8 is still a sane default for gitweb.cgi.

I am just interested in parsing linus's tree's rss feed. And no UTF-8 is not a sane default when the encoding used is not UTF-8. And Linus puts it it will be latin-1 for long I guess.

Regards, ismail