Test for invalid unicode in file name

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon May 9 15:39:54 UTC 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:32:30AM -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:
> 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.

Yeah I suspect using the non shortest form MIGHT cause sorting order to
change, while when using shortest form, sorting is apparently
automaticly correct (well as correct as 32bit straight unicode is).

Lennart Sorensen
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