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 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
