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Bug #254

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No specified charset for metadata packets payload

Added by Philippe Proulx over 12 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Start date:
06/05/2012
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Description

There's no current specified charset for the metadata packets payload. This can be problematic because if a tracer makes this Unicode and we read it thinking it's ASCII, the displayed text will be weird and the reading could even break.

Possible solutions are:
  • lock it in the specifications
  • UTF-8: ASCII-compatible, so this shouldn't make a big difference for most cases but allows for i18n of event names and so on
  • ASCII: simple, but only English
  • avoid everything else IMO
  • add a charset byte within the metadata packet header (e.g. 0 => ASCII, 1 => UTF-8, etc.), but this breaks binary compatibility

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