Re: Linux console UTF-8 by default

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:32:10PM +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:27, Keld J??rn 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?!!

It was maybe 5 years ago.

> > 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.

What harm can it be? It will not be characters that are relevant in any
syntactical analyses.

Best regards
keld

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