Re: Re: Big 7.1 open items

> While people are working on that, they might want to add some sanity checking
> to the multibyte character decoders. Currently they fail to check for
> "illegal" character sequences (i.e. sequences with no valid multibyte mapping),
> and fail to do something reasonable (like return an error, silently drop the
> offending characters, or anything else besides just returning random garbage
> and crashing the backend).
>
> The last time this failed to get on the TODO list because Bruce wanted
> more than one person to verify that it was an issue. If several people
> are going to work on the NATIONAL CHARACTER stuff, maybe they could look
> into this issue, too.

The issue is that some people felt we shouldn't be performing such
checks, and some did.

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