Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8310] New: USB device names are not sanitized for UTF-8
David Brownell <[email protected]>
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On Monday 04 June 2007, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:52:01 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? Or even UTF-7 ... ? FWIW the input isn't UCS-16; it's UTF16-LE. Back when I did the UTF16-LE to ISO Latin/1 conversion, Linux distros were doing well to get even that far beyond ASCII. ;) It's good that seems to have changed. > 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)? How big? Not big. UTF-16 to UTF-8 is a simple algorithm. For the reverse, see drivers/usb/gadget/usbstring.c ... the trick is you'd need to know enough Unicode to not goof it. Or, to find some code that does it right. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel