Re: Roundtripping in Unicode

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 13:36:55 CST

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Lars Kristan <lars.kristan@hermes.si> writes:

> Hmmmmm, here lies the catch. According to UTC, you need to keep
> processing the UNIX filenames as BINARY data. And, also according
> to UTC, any UTF-8 function is allowed to reject invalid sequences.
> Basically, you are not supposed to use strcpy to process filenames.

No: strcpy passes raw bytes, it does not interpret them according to
the locale. It's not "an UTF-8 function".

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