RE: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8

[David Laight]

From: Pali RohÃr
> Sent: 20 January 2020 15:20
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> This is not possible. There is 1:1 mapping between UTF-8 sequence and
> Unicode code point. wchar_t in kernel represent either one Unicode code
> point (limited up to U+FFFF in NLS framework functions) or 2bytes in
> UTF-16 sequence (only in utf8s_to_utf16s() and utf16s_to_utf8s()
> functions).

Unfortunately there is neither a 1:1 mapping of all possible byte sequences
to wchar_t (or unicode code points), nor a 1:1 mapping of all possible
wchar_t values to UTF-8.
Really both need to be defined - even for otherwise 'invalid' sequences.

Even the 16-bit values above 0xd000 can appear on their own in
windows filesystems (according to wikipedia).

It is all to easy to get sequences of values that cannot be converted
to/from UTF-8.

	David

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