Unicode bugs

Unicode bugs

Posted Feb 20, 2004 22:23 UTC (Fri) by spitzak (guest, #4593)
In reply to: Unicode bugs by simonl
Parent article: The kernel and character set encodings

Avoiding those bugs is one of the primary reasons why UTF-8 is a good
idea.

"../" in a UTF-8 filename means the *BYTES* for '.', '.', and '/' appear
next to each other. It is entirely irrelevant if the UTF-8 string is
legal or if it contains a byte sequence that some broken software by
Microsoft will turn into a slash.

I don't know how many times this has to be stated. But if your program is
looking at a UTF-8 string and is doing anything other than drawing the
characters on the screen, YOU DO NOT NEED TO DECODE IT! Just look at the
bytes!

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