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Re: Linux console UTF-8 by default
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:27, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> Well, you can never tell. I know that Sc2/WG2 has said that they will
> never allocate something above the 21th bit,
They have mentioned that in the text of the ISO/IEC 10646 itself.
> but then again they said
> they would never reallocate characters, and then they did it anyway.
Recently?!!
> I would say: "be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what
> you generate", and thus accept valid UTF-8 until the 31 bit.
That is not necessarily good advice in security issues.
> I also think there is code around to handle full UTF-8, so that is not
> an extra burden to do it.
UTF-8 is so easy it won't be a problem.
roozbeh
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