kern/136467: [geom] glabel(8) destroys access to GEOM tree if volume label contains non ASCII characters

[Jaakko Heinonen]

The following reply was made to PR kern/136467; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at saunalahti.fi>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, IZ-FreeBSD0902 at hs-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: kern/136467: [geom] glabel(8) destroys access to GEOM tree if
	volume label contains non ASCII characters
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:26:16 +0300

 Hi,
 
 This PR is a duplicate of kern/104389 and kern/120044.
 
 On 2009-07-09, Ivan Voras wrote:
 >  Would you be happy with a sysctl knob that controls whether to interpret 
 >  all labels as UTF-8 or to strip out all 8-bit characters, which would by 
 >  default be set to "interpret as UTF-8"?
 
 You may already know this but it's not enough to strip 8-bit characters
 but all characters unsafe for XML output need to be handled. There are
 more details in kern/104389.
 
 -- 
 Jaakko