nickva commented on code in PR #4828:
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/4828#discussion_r1380652572
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src/mango/src/mango_idx_view.erl:
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@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ range(_, _, LCmp, Low, HCmp, High) ->
% beginsWith requires both a high and low bound
range({[{<<"$beginsWith">>, Arg}]}, LCmp, Low, HCmp, High) ->
{LCmp0, Low0, HCmp0, High0} = range({[{<<"$gte">>, Arg}]}, LCmp, Low,
HCmp, High),
- range({[{<<"$lte">>, <<Arg/binary, 16#10FFFF>>}]}, LCmp0, Low0, HCmp0,
High0);
+ range({[{<<"$lte">>, <<Arg/binary, 16#10FFFF/utf8>>}]}, LCmp0, Low0,
HCmp0, High0);
Review Comment:
> "Erlang itself supports U+10FFFF and it is numerically greater than
U+FFFF" -- while I accept that U+FFFF might be the Unicode-official marker,
Erlang's support for a higher range worries me a bit.
Perhaps confusingly unicode collation rules don't sort by code point values.
Higher code-points may sort lower. Besides just `U+10FFFF` and `U+FFFF` there
are other such example:
```erlang
mango_json:cmp(<<16#1D175/utf8>>, <<16#41/utf8>>).
-1
```
Now, there may not be any other characters sorting higher than U+10FFFF and
lower than U+FFFF, so either one is probably ok in practice, but it's a bit
neater if we can use the canonical max sorting character. Jiffy / erlang /
couch_util:validate_utf8/1 should pass through both of those characters, so
technically users could insert keys with those crazy values in them:
```erlang
<<16#FFFF/utf8>> = jiffy:decode(<<"\"\\uFFFF\"">>).
```
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