Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:47:44 +0100 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API |
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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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