Re: [Chicken-janitors] #1182: utf8 egg silently accepts invalid byte sequences

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#1182: utf8 egg silently accepts invalid byte sequences
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  Reporter:  syn         |       Owner:  ashinn 
      Type:  defect      |      Status:  closed 
  Priority:  major       |   Milestone:  someday
 Component:  extensions  |     Version:  4.9.x  
Resolution:  invalid     |    Keywords:  utf8   
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Comment(by ashinn):

 Yes, a validation predicate is a long-standing todo.
 I met get around to it soon, patches are also welcome.

 It would in theory be possible to validate every input
 to every utf8 operation, but I have no intention of doing
 so, for performance reasons and because people may
 currently be using invalid utf8 in "safe" ways already.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1182#comment:9>
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