Just wanted to post a follow-up on this.
Mansour Gashasbi has reminded me about this. He is willing to come up with
a set of patches for the issues he has come across. So expect a request for
comments on this when it come through.
(I am back from a wonderful time at BlackHat Asia 2024 - talk text
On 2024.04.09 09:00, Thomas Schmitt via Libcdio-devel wrote:
Hi,
Pete Batard wrote:
Or maybe there's a mathematical proof that
a UTF-8 glyph byte encoding can never be larger than 1.5 the UTF-16 glyph
byte encoding
I thought to have given one. Let me try again:
https://datatracker.ietf.or
Hi,
Pete Batard wrote:
> Or maybe there's a mathematical proof that
> a UTF-8 glyph byte encoding can never be larger than 1.5 the UTF-16 glyph
> byte encoding
I thought to have given one. Let me try again:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3629
"In UTF-8, characters from the U+..
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the input. At least in Rufus (and most likely in the proposal
I submit) I'm not going to bother trying to "guess" what the maximum
possible size of a trick UTF-8 string might be, because, if the Unicode
Comittee decides to add a bunch of new codepages where a UTF-16 seque
First of all Thomas, your suggestions are *greatly appreciated! *
Right now I am getting ready for eclipse-watching in the US and am out of
town and/or vacationing. But when I get back I'll soon travel to Singapore
to talk at BlackHat Asia 2014 and will spend a couple of weeks in Malaysia
after th
Hi,
Pete Batard wrote:
> strncpy(cpy_result, p_psz_out, i_inlen);
Known as nitpicker i want to to point out that this would avoid a memory
corruption in case of overflow but would also truncate the name,
potentially to an incomplete UTF-8 byte sequence at the end.
I add the technical part of m
Hi Rocky,
The person who reported it to you originally found the issue in Rufus
(which I where I pointed them to libcdio), and I am planning to patch it
there when I get a chance, as well as send a proposal for a libcdio fix.
The most obvious fix, since that's where we overflow and, if we loo
