On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:05:30AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ineiev wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Can we scan the data before storing it > > > and detect when we will have the problem and then encode it then? > > > > Probably we could. I think some UTF-8 parsing would be needed, it's > > somewhat harder than to encode unconditionally. > > If we encode unconditionally does that mean that previous entries > already stored would need to be encoded?
My idea was: new entries are prefixed with a magic string no old entries begin with; when extracting, Savane checks if the string begins with the prefix and decodes it when it does.
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
