On Monday 21 February 2005 04:23 pm, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> The only reason why that bug occurred was the broken "hotfix" that
> >> escaped *all* non-ASCII content printed by Wget, instead of only that
> >> actually read from the network. We don't need iconv to fix that, we
> >> need correct quoting.
> >
> > yes, you may be right. but simone and i were wondering if the
> > interpolation of (even ASCII) data received by the server inside a
> > string retrieved using gettext is safe.
>
> If that weren't safe, Wget would (along with many other programs) have
> been broken a long time ago.  In fact, if that were the case, I would
> never have even accepted adding support for gettext in the first
> place.

well, theoretically it could happen. suppose gettext returns UTF16 encoded 
string for example... ;-)

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Mauro Tortonesi

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