From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263711AbUBRF7X (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:59:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263697AbUBRF7W (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:59:22 -0500 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:13455 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263711AbUBRF7V (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:59:21 -0500 From: Rob Landley Reply-To: rob@landley.net To: Marc Lehmann Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:49:38 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: Linux kernel References: <04Feb13.163954est.41760@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <20040216202043.GD17015@schmorp.de> In-Reply-To: <20040216202043.GD17015@schmorp.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402172049.38887.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 16 February 2004 14:20, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:48:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > works on the raw byte sequence and isn't confused). Basically accept the > > fact that UTF-8 strings can contain "garbage", and don't try to fix it > > up. > > But you are wrong, UTF-8 strings never contain garbage. UTF-8 is > well-defined and is always proper UTF-8. It's a tautology. Would you please learn the difference between "you are wrong" and "I disagree"? Rob