pidgin: 661db628: http://dev.aol.com/aim/oscar/ says, "A

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Thu Nov 5 02:25:12 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:21 -0500, markdoliner at pidgin.im wrote:
> http://dev.aol.com/aim/oscar/ says, "All strings in Feedbag are UTF8
> encoded."  So stop trying to validate stuff as utf8 then salvage when
> it isn't and just display broken crap or crash.

This seems like a bad idea. If we can really crash on invalid data, this
is going to be our next security issue.

Richard
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