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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:57:48 -0800
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To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:52:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> > 
>> > Well, some people on the list seem to think UTF-8 is the one and
>> > only right encoding, so for them if the message does not
>> > identify what it is in, assuming UTF-8 and not doing any
>> > conversion is probably the right thing ;-).
>> 
>> If you replace "assume" with "verify", then I agree.

One problem I have that approach is what to do if it does not
verify.  Reject and ask them to re-run the program with another
option --binary-log-message?

> I found some test code I did a while ago for validation of
> filesystem labels, cause D-BUS diconnects your session, if you
> send an invalid utf-8 string to the bus. :)
>
> Kay

Thanks.  I take it that you are licensing this code to use in
git when we doing what Linus suggests?