On 2014-08-14 11:19:28 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > grep should work correctly even if the input contains NUL bytes, so perhaps > it would be better to replace an invalid byte by the UTF-8 sequence for > U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, as that's one standard way to deal with this > problem. Or perhaps the volunteer will have a better idea.
The problem with this solution is that it would change the length of the text, while replacing invalid bytes by zero bytes could be done in place (if allowed), with very little change of the code, I think. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
