[patch] scp + UTF-8

Michael Stone mstone at mathom.us
Wed Jan 20 23:50:03 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:13:10AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
>3. I am not sure whether there is a specific byte limit for UTF-8 in
>any of the standards, e.g. "- To support terminals larger then
>MAX_WINSIZE and still be properly indented I increased the buf size to
>4x the size of MAX_WINSIZE, since the maximum size of an UTF-8 char
><should> be 4 bytes." might not be a portable assumption and I would
>at least safeguard it.

Isn't that assumption completely broken in the presence of combining 
characters?

Mike Stone


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