Re: two (bugs? misfeatures?) in libidn

[Jon Nelson]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jon Nelson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've encountered two bugs or misfeatures in libidn:
>
> Hi!  Thanks for your report.
>
>> 1. given an idna-encoded input, it is possible to generate invalid
>> UTF-8 output (as defined by RFC3629). The UTF-8 is invalid because
>> codepoints above 0x10FFFF are used.
>>
>> See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629
>
> Can you be more concrete, what inputs does this happen for and what
> output would you expect?  An example would help illustrate the problem.

Example:   echo xn--1234xxxxxxxxxx | idn -u --debug


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Jon
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