On 02/17/2016 10:04 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> >> I also believe there is no such thing as a "ucs2 string". This code will procedure invalid utf8 if utf16 surrogates are present; this is how the abortion called cesu8 ended up happening. > > I raised the same concern; please see the sub-thread at: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/7366/focus=7493 > > If I understand correctly, the decision was that the caller would be > responsible for not passing in surrogates. > The "caller" here is the UEFI variables storage. What do you do if a variable contains them? Refuse to represent them? Not a real option. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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