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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Mar 30, 2019 4:27 UTC (Sat) by gps (subscriber, #45638)
In reply to: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel by mina86
Parent article: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Nah, that world of pain already exists. Today it is distributed among umpteen different application and library implementations that differ.

What's one more? Some of the above could even go away after this in some system designs.

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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Mar 31, 2019 14:41 UTC (Sun) by mina86 (guest, #68442) [Link]

> Nah, that world of pain already exists. Today it is distributed among umpteen different application and library implementations that differ.

That may be so but I'd rather my Samba server crashed than my kernel oopsed or executed malicious code because Unicode was handled incorrectly. Just like putting HTTP server inside the kernel wasn't a good idea, I'm not yet convinced that putting Unicode handling is.


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