Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:47:33 -0500 solar <solar@gentoo.org> wrote:
| I forget where I read it but I thought that unicode lead to overflows
| and was considered a general security risk. I wish I knew where I read
| that but I'm unable to find it.
| 
| Any list readers know anything relating to that?

Eh, not really. With non-utf-8 you could argue that it's an increased
risk, since you get non-string-terminating nulls, but with utf-8 those
aren't an issue.

It's not really a very well substantiated claim. It's like saying "GUI
programming leads to bugs" or "internationalisation leads to program
crashes". Yes, it's possible (in C, anyway) to screw up your buffer
routines when converting code to handle utf-8, but then it's always
possible to screw up buffer routines.

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