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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tomas Szepe wrote:
> On Feb-18 2004, Wed, 07:35 -0800
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>But it makes perfect sense to use a policy of:
>> - escape valid UTF-8 characters as '\u7777'

[And e.g. \U00017777 for characters above \uFFFF]

>> - escape _invalid_ UTF-8 characters as their hex byte sequence (ie 
>>   '\xC0\x80\x80', whatever)
>> - (and, obviously, escape the valid UTF-8 character '\' as '\\').
>>
>>Don't you agree? It clearly allows all the cases, and you can re-generate 
>>the _exact_ original stream of bytes from the above (ie it is nicely 
>>reversible, which in my opinion is a requirement).
> 
> I really really hope this is _exactly_ what we're going to see in practice.
> 

Same here.  This is clearly The Right Thing[TM].

	-hpa

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