On 05 May 2001 08:16:45 -0400, Richard Schoeller wrote:
> Better still would be to treat invalid utf-8 as though it were
> in the codeset of the current global locale. It is very likely
> that end users outside of western europe will exchange most of
> their email with users of the same codeset as themselves.
We can't even do that, at least not entirely. Another hint we have (at
least in mail messages), is the charset used for the body content, which
is often mirrored in the subject and whatnot. So idont think gal should
be doing this at all.
> There may be other mechanisms for establishing a context in
> which to interpret the invalid utf-8, but those will be specific
> to the application and can't be resolved in gal.
Exactly.
The utf8 functions just need to fail in some meaningful way. Chances
are, if we have invalid input at that point, we are unlikely to get
anything workable afterwards, but crashing is definetly not on.
> Dick
>
> On 04 May 2001 21:43:08 -0400, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
> > On 04 May 2001 12:50:59 -0400, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> > > OK, I've just committed some tweaks to gal's g_utf8_* functions that make
> > > them check all their inputs and print a warning if they are applied to bad
> > > utf-8.
> > >
> > > The checks are macroified, but I've turned them on by default. This way,
> > > there will at least be some warning when we are doing something broken.
> > >
> > > -JT
> >
> > The problem is that these are often outside world generated strings.
> > I'm not sure if we should leave dealing with checking in real life
> > situations to the caller or to the internal functions. It would be less
> > programmer work probably to fix the internal functions to handle
> > incorrect utf8. Ideally to assume that incorrect utf8 is latin1 since
> > that's what it will be most of the time.
> > Chris
> >
> >
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