Re: Re: bug in 2nd-highest-upvoted mb_check_encoding() comment code

On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 16:25, Hans Henrik Bergan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> @Peter Cowburn
> PS it would appear that you (accidentally?) deleted every single comment,
> instead of just comment 95289
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Thanks. It was not accidental.


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>> > the comment
>> > https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-check-encoding.php#95289 is
>> the
>> > 2nd-highest upvoted comment, and makes some dubious claims, but the code
>> > provided is bugged and should not be used,
>> > as a specific example it incorrectly validates "\xC0\x81"  , which is
>> > illegal  in UTF8 (quote RFC3629: The octet values C0, C1, F5 to FF never
>> > appear - ref https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3629 )
>> >
>> > so.. can we at least get an editor's note that the code is bugged,
>> > incorrectly validates "\xC0\x81", and should not be used?
>> Instead of doing this, I have deleted the referenced note.
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