[RFC] replace non utf8 always with the same char

[Danny Kukawka]

On Monday 05 June 2006 05:11, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> After some time thinking about shared.h and the functions inside the file,
> I think we can remove the complete debug stuff and switch the addons and
> prober to use the existing code in logger.c/h . This has two advantages:
>
>   1.) share code and reduce doubled code
>   2.) we don't need a new file with debug stuff in CVS
>   3.) we can use HAL_* (e.g. HAL_ERROR/HAL_DEBUG) for finer grained debug
> msg.
>
> The only thing left from the file is the function drop_privileges (). After
> reading the IRC log from yesterday, I added the files droppriv.c/h to the
> (attached) diff as in the patch from Richard.
>
> Btw. IMO we maybe could move the function to utils.c/h , but there are OTOH
> maybe to many functions in utils.c we never need in addons/probers. On the
> other side we also could add a new helper file where we can collect
> addons/specific functionality.
>
> About verify UTF8: We should add the check IMO on a more central place in
> HAL, e.g. to libhal_device_set_property_string(). With this solution we
> would never need to check utf8 in the helpers.
>
> Please comment ...

Any comments? Reviewed? What about adding drop_privileges() to utils.c instead 
of a own file for only one function?

Danny