Re: [HACKERS] Unicode combining characters

> > 1) we support these supplementary characters, knowing that they won't
> > work with regexes,
> >
> > 2) I back out the change, but then anyone using these characters will
> > get something weird, since the decoding would be faulty (they would
> > be handled as 3 bytes UTF-8 chars, and then the fourth byte would
> > become a "faulty char"... not very good, as the 3-byte version is
> > still not a valid UTF-8 code !),
> >
> > 3) we fix the regex engine within the next 24 hours, before the beta
> > deadline is activated :/
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
> I think 2) is not very good, and we should reject these 4-bytes UTF-8
> strings. After all, we are not ready for them.

If we still recognise them as 4-byte UTF-8 chars (in order to parse
the next char correctly) and reject them as invalid chars, that should
be OK :)

> BTW, other part of your patches looks good. Peter, what do you think?

Nice to hear :)

Patrice

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