Re: Change encoding of RSS feed to latin-1

[Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr>]

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