Possible Unicode Problems in Busybox - Collect and Discussion

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 13 16:09:24 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Harald Becker <ralda at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> The real problem with unicode is utf-16 which contains \0 chars (but its
>> another and uncommon problem)
>
>
> This unveils an interesting question: Do we want to add UTF-8 support to BB
> or full multi byte support. The former may be simpler, the later more
> correct.

The world seems to be standardizing on utf-8.

Thank God, supporting gazillion of encodings is no fun.


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