James Y Knight wrote: > Hopefully it can be assumed that your locale encoding really is a > non-overlapping superset of ASCII, as is required by POSIX...
Can you please point to the part of the POSIX spec that says that such overlapping is forbidden? > I'm a bit scared at the prospect that U+DCAF could turn into "/", that > just screams security vulnerability to me. So I'd like to propose that > only 0x80-0xFF <-> U+DC80-U+DCFF should ever be allowed to be > encoded/decoded via the error handler. It would be actually U+DC2f that would turn into /. I'm happy to exclude that range from the mapping if POSIX really requires an encoding not to be overlapping with ASCII. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
