Re: the dangers of Unicode

2000-10-24 Thread Ed Batutis
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The article http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0007.html#9 >however is clearly a "Chicken little, 'the sky is falling'" argument >and should be addressed as such. Let me quote the final statement in >that section as it conveys the general tone of the section: > >

Re: the dangers of Unicode

2000-10-24 Thread dreamwvr
hi, really don't know if this is very helpful but what if you create modules for uucode when they first install otherwise it is ascii? Secondly why ! see by community whom would be interested and have a area describing how one might program for unicode. Then allow those groups (languages) tha

Re: the dangers of Unicode

2000-10-23 Thread bstell
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:02:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The bottom line of this argument is that we should only > > support ascii (read English) or the secutity code > > will be harder to write. > > I wouldn't read the articule in such a desperate to

Re: the dangers of Unicode

2000-10-23 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:02:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The bottom line of this argument is that we should only > support ascii (read English) or the secutity code > will be harder to write. I wouldn't read the articule in such a desperate tone. All it says is that Unicode is much,

Re: the dangers of Unicode

2000-10-23 Thread bstell
The bottom line of this argument is that we should only support ascii (read English) or the secutity code will be harder to write. The article basically says that Unicode is more complex than ascii therefore security cannot easily validate input strings. Here is the last bit of the article: ( h