Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-25 Thread Philippe Verdy
2013/3/25 Joó Ádám : >> And how many web forms forget to check the presence of a percent sign >> and are executing SQL searches without cheking it using clauses >> similar to "WHERE table.field LIKE :parameter" by binding directly the >> submitted form value to the "parameter" variable placeholder,

Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-25 Thread Joó Ádám
> And how many web forms forget to check the presence of a percent sign > and are executing SQL searches without cheking it using clauses > similar to "WHERE table.field LIKE :parameter" by binding directly the > submitted form value to the "parameter" variable placeholder, ignoring > the fact that

Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-23 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
You probably thought on the little Bobby Tables when writing this email... http://xkcd.com/327/ Le 23 mars 2013 01:35, "Philippe Verdy" a écrit : > And how many web forms forget to check the presence of a percent sign > and are executing SQL searches without cheking it using clauses > similar to

Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-22 Thread Philippe Verdy
And how many web forms forget to check the presence of a percent sign and are executing SQL searches without cheking it using clauses similar to "WHERE table.field LIKE :parameter" by binding directly the submitted form value to the "parameter" variable placeholder, ignoring the fact that the perce

Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-22 Thread Stephan Stiller
This one is incredible: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922433 This sort of failure to perform input validation and/or escaping is also a sign of bad software engineering in general. I recall an important CGI form of my university refusing to let me submit because I input an ASC

Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-22 Thread john knightley
But is how do we know whether the bug is there all the time! On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > This one is incredible: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922433 > > >

In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
This one is incredible: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922433