Unicode and APIs
Sam Hartman
hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 20 07:06:18 EDT 2007
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
Russ> Sam Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> writes:
>> Ken mentioned in another post that he suspected that adding
>> internationalization support would require significant API
>> work.
>> I'd like to challenge that assumption.
>> How badly will things break if we add a context flag that says
>> "everything is UTF8" and minimize other API changes?
Russ> I think you still have to deal with IDN for any place where
Russ> a hostname is embedded in a Kerberos principal name and
Russ> where automatic discovery of the appropriate principal name
Russ> for a service is done.
I agree. Assuming that we decide that hostnames in kerberos
principals are ACE-encoded then you want to convert anything that
looks unicode (assuming the utf8 flag is set) that comes into sname_to_princ or anything else that accepts a hostname into ACE.
If we decide that principals are not ACE, well, then you want to
accept ACE and UTF8|current locale.
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