Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8310] New: USB device names are not sanitized for UTF-8

Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:52:01 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <[email protected]> wrote:

> Regarding:
> 
> 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8310
> 
> Does anybody think it would be worthwhile to convert string descriptors 
> from UCS-16 to UTF-8 (instead of Latin1) when we read them in?

I remember that issue. I thought that we wanted some kind of escape
syntax... Like what HTML uses with &#xxxx; perhaps. This would allow
to edit xorg.conf on systems which are not UTF-8 clean. But perhaps
it's a non-goal. How big is the code to convert (we need both ways,
right)?

-- Pete

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