Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

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=rss

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=commit;h=05b8b0fafd4cac75d205ecd5ad40992e2cc5934d

This looks like malformed xml to me ( because of \363 part ). Is there any way 
to fix this so git rss can be parsed? Or is this legal in xml and parsers are 
buggy? 

Regards,
ismail