Re: [boost] [regex] How robust are the <boost/regex/pending/unicode_iterator.hpp> adapters?

Subject: Re: [boost] [regex] How robust are the <boost/regex/pending/unicode_iterator.hpp> adapters?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-18 13:25:00

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Mathias Gaunard
<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 18/07/2011 18:17, Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>> Boost.Filesystem needs the UTF-32 to UTF-16 and UTF-16 to UTF-32
>> adapters to implement char16_t and char32_t support. Do they have any
>> known bugs or other outstanding problems?
>
> Yes, they can read past the end of your input range if it contains invalid
> data at the end.

Interesting. Would a fix be difficult?

Alternately, does your Unicode library in the sandbox have equivalent
functionality, but without reading past the end on bad data?

--Beman