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* Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?
  @ 2006-02-28 18:25 99%   ` Bryan Østergaard
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From: Bryan Østergaard @ 2006-02-28 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:47:33PM -0500, solar 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?
> 
It's true that many overflows have been found in unicode aware
applications, like the zillion unicode overflows in Internet Explorer
for example. But that shouldn't lead to considering unicode a general
security risk in my mind even though the apache team uses ascii in the
default configuration to protect against bugs in poorly written
applications.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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