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

Tomas Szepe
2004-02-18T19:48:11Z

On Feb-18 2004, Wed, 07:35 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> But it makes perfect sense to use a policy of:
> - escape valid UTF-8 characters as '\u7777'
> - escape _invalid_ UTF-8 characters as their hex byte sequence (ie
> '\xC0\x80\x80', whatever)
> - (and, obviously, escape the valid UTF-8 character '\' as '\\').
>
> Don't you agree? It clearly allows all the cases, and you can re-generate
> the _exact_ original stream of bytes from the above (ie it is nicely
> reversible, which in my opinion is a requirement).

I really really hope this is _exactly_ what we're going to see in practice.

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>