Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> hpa's suggestion that invalid bytes are treated as 0x800000xx works
> very nicely, *iff* a program is absolutely consistent about its
> treatment of bytes in that way.  When there's a mixture of code which
> interprets malformed UTF-8 in different ways, then it's messy and
> sometimes a security hazard.

Absolutely.  It has to be considered very carefully.

	-hpa
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