[Kde-pim] Fwd: Re: KDE 4.4.98 (4.4 RC3)

argonel argonel at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 15:33:34 GMT 2010


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:

>
> The protection has to happen somewhere. Technically, it's Konversation's
> fault
> for passing unfiltered network data into an API.
>
> But it could also be a QString issue, for allowing those invalid UTF-8
> strings
> to be converted to UTF-16 in the first place.
>
> Note that changing the D-Bus behaviour may likely introduce bugs in
> Glib-based
> applications, where conversions from UTF-8 do implement this check. (Which,
> in
> my opinion, is incomplete)
>
>
If you're referring to dbus's lack of checks for 0x1FFFE and so on, I found
that I was unable to create a QChar > 0xFFFF, so perhaps not checking those
is reasonable.

Regards, Eli
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