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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