Unicode security

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Jan 11 00:50:05 GMT 2022


On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, Paul Koning via Binutils wrote:

> Yikes.  So if you use a different text editor than the previous author, 
> or a different compiler, your C code with Unicode identifiers might 
> suddenly get link errors because the same string got encoded a different 
> way.
> 
> This is clearly bad; is there some way for this to be fixed?

Users should pay attention to compiler warnings (GCC enables 
-Wnormalized=nfc by default).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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