Test for invalid unicode in file name

Taavi Burns jaaaarel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sat May 7 05:32:30 UTC 2005


On 5/6/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Well yes, you MUST use the shortest form possible although why anyone
> would write a parser to NOT accept all possible forms I don't know,
> since you just write the generator to write shortest form, and parser to
> parse anything that fits the rules in general.

Aside from the security issues already mentioned there's also the
issue of alphabetising characters.  It's much harder to write an
efficient sorting algorithm if there are identical characters of very
different bit widths.

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