From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:08:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511182208.24248.ismail@uludag.org.tr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051118200217.GA2831@vrfy.org>
On Friday 18 November 2005 22:02, you wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:27:06PM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 19:26, you wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 November 2005 18:33, you wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to parse git's rss feed and now xml parsers seems to
> > > > choke on it because of an error in the produced feed. Looking at
> > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;
> > > >a=rs s
> > > >
> > > > line 781 says :
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David G\363mez wrote:<br/>
> > > >
> > > > which is part of the commit :
> > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;
> > > >a=co mm it;h=05b8b0fafd4cac75d205ecd5ad40992e2cc5934d
> > >
> > > Ok looks like this text is latin-1 encoded although xml is served as
> > > utf-8.
> >
> > Any comments on this?
>
> 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.
>
I totally agree, utf8 should be default else the produced XML is wrong. Its
advertised as utf-8 but the content is latin1.
> With the next round of gitweb, I will substitute these caracters with
> valid utf8, which will show up as invalid chars.
When should we expect this? Currently I can't parse commit feed without
encoding to utf8 first.
> And git guys, please start to think again about your insane options,
> that cause more harm than anything good.
Can git maintainer(s) comment on this please?
Regards,
ismail
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-18 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 16:33 Rss produced by git is not valid xml? Ismail Donmez
2005-11-18 17:26 ` Ismail Donmez
2005-11-18 19:27 ` Ismail Donmez
2005-11-18 20:02 ` Kay Sievers
2005-11-18 20:08 ` Ismail Donmez [this message]
2005-11-18 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 20:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-18 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-18 20:51 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-18 21:01 ` Kay Sievers
2005-11-18 20:45 ` Ismail Donmez
2005-11-18 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 21:22 ` Ismail Donmez
2005-11-18 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-18 21:29 ` Ismail Donmez
2005-11-19 8:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-18 20:55 ` Kay Sievers
2005-11-18 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 21:33 ` Ismail Donmez
2005-11-18 21:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-18 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 23:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-18 23:53 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-19 1:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-19 8:49 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-19 10:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-18 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-18 23:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-19 0:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-18 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-19 0:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-19 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-19 1:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-19 10:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-19 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-20 1:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-20 3:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-20 4:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <20051127025249.GA12286@vrfy.org>
2005-11-27 3:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-27 4:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-28 0:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] mailinfo: allow -u to fall back on latin1 to utf8 conversion Junio C Hamano
2005-11-28 6:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-28 9:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-27 16:18 ` Rss produced by git is not valid xml? Kay Sievers
2005-11-19 0:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-20 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-21 8:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-21 9:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-19 3:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-19 4:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-19 6:31 Marco Costalba
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