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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 solar <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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| I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows |
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| and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read |
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| that but I'm unable to find it. |
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| Any list readers know anything relating to that? |
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Eh, not really. With non-utf-8 you could argue that it's an increased |
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risk, since you get non-string-terminating nulls, but with utf-8 those |
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aren't an issue. |
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It's not really a very well substantiated claim. It's like saying "GUI |
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programming leads to bugs" or "internationalisation leads to program |
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crashes". Yes, it's possible (in C, anyway) to screw up your buffer |
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routines when converting code to handle utf-8, but then it's always |
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possible to screw up buffer routines. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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