On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quick! What happens if someone passes in "%ff%4fpensocial_owner_id" > > to our java code and then we pass it on to .NET code running in a > > japanese locale? > > > Er, shouldn't this always be UTF-8 encoded, in which case %ff isn't a valid > character anyway? It seems to me that if we're decoding and re-encoding > anyway we'd eliminate most of these sorts of things.
You're right, %ff%4f is unicode, there is a UTF-8 version we'd accept though. Java does not canonicalize the halfwidth to ASCII equivalents. Other platforms do (I think for sort order?), so the disconnect causes problems. Cheers, Brian
