On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 6:23 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> I happened to notice that when CopyReadLineText() calls mblen(), it
> passes only the first byte of the multi-byte characters. However,
> pg_gb18030_mblen() looks at the first and the second byte.
> CopyReadLineText() always passes \0 as the second byte, so
> pg_gb18030_mblen() will incorrectly report the length of 4-byte encoded
> characters as 2.
>
> It works out fine, though, because the second half of the 4-byte encoded
> character always looks like another 2-byte encoded character, in
> GB18030. CopyReadLineText() is looking for delimiter and escape
> characters and newlines, and only single-byte characters are supported
> for those, so treating a 4-byte character as two 2-byte characters is
> harmless.
Yikes.
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