Lower overhead String encoding/decoding

Remi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Sat Nov 15 19:19:22 UTC 2014


On 11/15/2014 07:07 PM, Richard Warburton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
[...]

>
> A good observation. I've added variants which take a String for the charset
> name as well the charset variants.
>
> Having said that - wouldn't it also be a good idea to replicate the caching
> on the charset versions as well as the charset name? I don't see any
> obvious reason why this isn't possible but perhaps there's something I'm
> missing here. Probably cleaner as a separate patch either way.
>
> regards,

I think it will create a security hazard, if a rogue charset declare 
itself as UTF-8 and create a malicious charset decoder, you don't want 
this decoder to be shared and reused.

Rémi

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