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by remus 1485 days ago
> You need to not roll your own and also ensure that any third party components didn’t roll their own.

If you're not writing the code and somebody else isn't writing the code then who is writing the code?!

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A well-tested Unicode library built for security should be doing your Unicode parsing in security critical components.

It’s just another way of saying you should be doing a security audit as part of selecting a library and integrating it into your product.