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Re: Linux console UTF-8 by default
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:00, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > Recently?!!
>
> It was maybe 5 years ago.
Do you have more details? I thought you were talking about the Hangul
thing. Is this something else?
> > > 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.
Check the section "Security Considerations" in RFC 3629.
roozbeh
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