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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by kstenerud on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:30AM (#21212810)
You can also trivially defend against that by having a max travel distance of, say, 4.
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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by mirekrusin on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:41PM (#21237700)
Exactly, so you arrived at the same conclusion - fixed distance so you can safely pick up stream at arbitrary position.
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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by kstenerud on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:38AM (#21240061)
The difference is that the distance limits would be inherent to the codec itself, rather than taking up extra space in the data stream.
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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by ludamad on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:55PM (#21219078)
Is that guaranteed to catch all valid cases?
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