Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 06:26:53 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, the reason you'd want an out-of-band mechanism is to be able to
> display it as some kind of escapes.

As soon as you go to "display", you need a mechanism to escape lots of
characters, not just malformed UTF-8. Consider: \u0000, \u001B,
\u0007 and such need to be escaped too.

-- Jamie
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