Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

I just looked at the diff this commit introduces:

	e6bd23911efd0a2bd756c77d9e7ba6576eb739a1
        Documentation: asciidoc sources are utf-8

with gitk (BTW, I pulled from paulus today, so "master" branch
has the latest gitk) while my locale set to LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8.

Surprisingly, the diff to Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt,
which changes Lukas' name originally incorrectly encoded in
iso-8859-1 to utf-8, was shown and both pre-image and post-image
lines are readable.

I do not know how tcl/tk does it, but it is doing the right
thing.

Junio C Hamano wrote:

I just looked at the diff this commit introduces:

	e6bd23911efd0a2bd756c77d9e7ba6576eb739a1
        Documentation: asciidoc sources are utf-8

with gitk (BTW, I pulled from paulus today, so "master" branch
has the latest gitk) while my locale set to LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8.

Surprisingly, the diff to Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt,
which changes Lukas' name originally incorrectly encoded in
iso-8859-1 to utf-8, was shown and both pre-image and post-image
lines are readable.

I do not know how tcl/tk does it, but it is doing the right
thing.

Tcl/Tk assumes that anything that isn't valid UTF-8 is Latin-1.

	-hpa