Add Unicode support to rules
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enhancement
non-trivial
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
This one will also likely sit a while, but lets get it documented here.
We may want to completely replicate the rules engine for utf-8 (or possibly compile it twice, like we do for dynamic_big_crypt), because it is very likely that adding MBCS to rules will greatly slow it down overall.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the rules engine and the existing dynamic_big_crypt implementation mentioned in the issue. Determine the intended Unicode or UTF-8 scope and compare the performance implications of the proposed approaches. Done requires an agreed implementation direction and documented behavior and performance expectations.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100