Bug 424623 - Unicode characters in category names can lead to ambiguities
Summary: Unicode characters in category names can lead to ambiguities
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kphotoalbum
Classification: Applications
Component: XML backend (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KPhotoAlbum Bugs
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Reported: 2020-07-24 23:34 UTC by Johannes Zarl-Zierl
Modified: 2020-07-24 23:34 UTC (History)
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Description Johannes Zarl-Zierl 2020-07-24 23:34:30 UTC 
SUMMARY
Non-ascii characters in XML attribute names need to be escaped. This is done in the method FileWriter::escape().
Unfortunately, this function is not fully unicode aware, leading to multiple code points being escaped to the same value. E.g. both "😃" and "⌘" are escaped as "_.0". This could lead to ambiguities if two category names just differ by one character that is mapped to "_.0".

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Some information on the issue can be found in the commit message for commit ac5370fb2492477606587278899df2300043c75b.