Add a comment for potential future breakage

2018-02-04 02:54:08 +08:00
parent 51dad30fc0
commit 63024751cc
1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -239,6 +239,11 @@ void Emulation::receiveData(const char* text, int length)

    bufferedUpdate();

+    /* XXX: the following code involves encoding & decoding of "UTF-16
+     * surrogate pairs", which does not work with characters higher than
+     * U+10FFFF
+     * https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/unicode_encodings.html#surrogates
+     */
    QString utf16Text = _decoder->toUnicode(text,length);
    std::wstring unicodeText = utf16Text.toStdWString();