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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API
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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