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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:08:44PM +0100, Dieter Baron wrote:
> In article <20070226134440.DC9502150A@cvs.netbsd.org> Matthias wrote:
> [...]
>=20
>   Please note that fs/unicode.h does not handle UTF-16 surrogates
> correctly.  What's worth, the API does not allow this to be fixed.
>=20
>   (Unicode defines more characters than fit in a 16 bit int.  In
> UTF-16, a character with a code above 0xffff is represented as two
> surrogate values.  In UTF-8, it is encoded as a 5 byte sequence.
> Encoding/decoding one 16 bit value at a time does not allow for this
> conversion to be done correctly.)

Please feel free to suggest ways that this should be fixed. Patches are=20
best!

We all would like better unicode handling, and AFAIK no one is wedded to=20
the existing interface.

Take care,

Bill

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