On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Brian Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.


This is why everyone should speak Latin.


>
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
>



-- 
~Kevin

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