From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965028AbVHYX7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:59:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965029AbVHYX7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:59:13 -0400 Received: from gemini.smart.net ([66.225.112.69]:8972 "EHLO gemini.smart.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965028AbVHYX7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: <430E5B8E.5C89A06B@smart.net> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:00:14 -0400 From: "Daniel B." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18+dsb+smp+ide i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Alan Cox Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. References: <1118690448.13770.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200506152149.06367.pmcfarland@downeast.net> <20050616023630.GC9773@thunk.org> <87y89a7wfn.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <20050616143727.GC10969@thunk.org> <20050619175503.GA3193@elf.ucw.cz> <1119292723.3279.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sul, 2005-06-19 at 18:55, Pavel Machek wrote: > ... > > > > If we are serious about utf-8 support in ext3, we should return > > -EINVAL if someone passes non-canonical utf-8 string. > > That would ironically not be standards compliant Which standards? The standards I've read (mostly XML- and web-related specs) do say that non-standard UTF-8 octet sequences should be rejected. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net