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Re: krb5 commit: Modernize UTF-8/UCS-2 conversion code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bartlett)
Mon Apr 17 17:25:37 2017
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From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>,
Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:25:16 +1200
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On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 15:53 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On 04/17/2017 03:24 PM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> > is there a reson why you still limit this to USC-2 and not use full
> > UTF16
> > support?
>
> This commit was just trying to eliminate warnings, not change the
> functionality.
>
> This code originally came from OpenLDAP's utf-8-conv.c, and was
> incorporated with the goal of Windows compatibility (for PACs and RC4
> string-to-key). If Windows now supports UTF-16 then we could
> consider
> extending it, but I wouldn't want to do so without confirmation of
> that.
Windows has been UTF-16 for quite a long time now.
Andrew Bartlett
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