Am Sonntag, 18. März 2007 12:36 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout:
>
> It seems to me that the easiest solution would be to forbid \x?? escape
> sequences where it's greater than \x7F for UTF-8 server encodings.
> Instead introduce a \u escape for specifying the unicode character
> directly. Under the basic principle that any escape sequence still has
> to represent a single character. The result can be multiple bytes, but
> you don't have to check for consistancy anymore.

Would'nt the best solution to change the order of 
validation/convert_backslash_sequences better? First convert the sequences, 
and reject them in the validation stage?

Regards
Mario Weilguni

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