Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:24:47 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | 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.
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