Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 15

[Avi Kivity]

On 02/17/2011 02:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > (btw what happens in a non-UTF-8 locale? I guess we should just 
> > reject unencodable strings).
>
>
> While QEMU is mostly ASCII internally, for the purposes of the JSON 
> parser, we always encode and decode UTF-8.  We reject invalid UTF-8 
> sequences.  But since JSON is string-encoded unicode, we can always 
> decode a JSON string to valid UTF-8 as long as the string is well formed.

That is wrong.  If the user passes a Unicode filename it is expected to 
be translated to the current locale encoding for the purpose of, say, 
filename lookup.

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