Re: patch: utf8_to_unicode (trivial)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-13T17:50:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie ago 13 12:50:13 -0400 2010:
>> Oh, hey, look at that.  Any thought on what to about the fact that our
>> two existing copies of utf2ucs() don't match?  (one tests against 0xf8
>> where the other against 0xf0)

> I'm not sure why it's masking 0xf8 instead of 0xf0.

Because it wants to verify that this is in fact a 4-byte UTF8 code.
Compare the code (and comments) for pg_utf_mblen.

AFAICS the version in mbprint.c is flat out wrong, and the only reason
nobody's noticed is that it should never get passed a more-than-4-byte
sequence anyway.

			regards, tom lane