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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] [Bug 72917] UTF8 and other cause XML parsing
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-01-23 20:42:59
Message-ID: 200401231843.05126.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Martijn Klingens wrote:
>On Friday 23 January 2004 20:38, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Latin 1 decoding can't fail, so this will never be reached.
>
>Hmm, I stated before that AFAIK it *could* fail. If both latin AND utf
> cannot fail that would be both weird and annoying. Or is there also
> an isLatin1() method in KStringHandler?

It can't fail because anything is valid Latin-1 text. Therefore, it can 
always properly convert any 8-bit string into Unicode.

The UTF-8 decoder, however, won't fail. There's a difference between 
"can't" and "won't". It'll silently accept invalid UTF-8 sequences, 
which it shouldn't.

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