Would you like signs with those chars?
Would you like signs with those chars?
Posted Oct 27, 2022 15:10 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by wtarreau
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?
> Nowadays it's still possible to seldom spot programs which stop parsing input after 0xFF
As luck would have it, 0xFF never appears in any valid UTF-8 stream (even in the original definition of UTF-8 which allowed for longer sequences), so the strong push to use UTF-8 everywhere lessens the impact of these bugs.