Re: UTF-8 Corrigendum, new Glossary

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 14:03:18 EST


And to be clear, what it means in this case:

1) People have security concerns about UTF-8
2) The Unicode Consortium has an official solution to address these
concerens
3) Your implementation does not

The "People" from (1) can believe what they will about your implementation!

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Scherer" <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Corrigendum, new Glossary

> Kevin Bracey wrote:
> > > I find this silly. That creation of such forms would be forbidden I
can see
> > > and agree to. But interpretation? I understand the reasoning when
security
> > > is an issue. But why make it flat illegal? There are many applications
> > > where such a sequence poses no security danger.
>
> you are free to write and use a non-conformant implementation. just be
aware of what that means... :-)
> markus
>



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