[libvirt] PATCH: Fix escaping for 8-bit high characters

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:00:49PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The virBufferEscapeString method has a broken test
> 
>   *cur > 0x20
> 
> which causes all 8-bit high characters to be lost as 'cur' is a signed
> char. This obviously dooms anyone using UTF-8 characters outside the
> boring old ASCII-7 range, like this guy
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479517
> 
> Daniel
> 
> diff --git a/src/buf.c b/src/buf.c
> index 259175d..c802aa2 100644
> --- a/src/buf.c
> +++ b/src/buf.c
> @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ virBufferEscapeString(const virBufferPtr buf, const char *format, const char *st
>              *out++ = 'o';
>              *out++ = 's';
>              *out++ = ';';
> -        } else if ((*cur >= 0x20) || (*cur == '\n') || (*cur == '\t') ||
> +        } else if (((unsigned char)*cur >= 0x20) || (*cur == '\n') || (*cur == '\t') ||
>                     (*cur == '\r')) {
>              /*
>               * default case, just copy !

  The original code from libxml2 used const xmlChar *cur which is an
unsigned char...,

  ACK

  W.r.t. the comment, another way would be to check if the out of ASCII
is an UTF-8 char sequence and if not export it as char references like
'€'. But it's painful and I don't think we can have the problem, at
least as long as libvirt is used for the management, because all
definitions are input as XML, libxml2 will only expose them as UTF-8 so
all strings coming out of a definition (domain or else) should be UTF-8.

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Veillard      | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
daniel at veillard.com  | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library  http://libvirt.org/