On 04/06/2001 17:48:16 Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
[...]
| Well, in this case, there are implementations who do this and it *is*
| documented as legal for a parser to do. Sorry if it messes up future
| implementations, but someone is going to get hurt here -- and between the
| two UTF-16 has been around/accepted longer and has more implementations.
|
| I still think it is best not to do anything with the format at all, I was
| just pointing out why official recognition may not be necessary (reason
| #623).
Let's be careful with the word "legal". The strange (per-)version of
UTF-8 which re-encodes UTF-16 is legal input as far as The Unicode
Standard is concerned. It is, however, totally illegal as far as the
IETF, the Internet, the W3C, the WWW, XML, and HTML are concerned.
Misha Wolf
W3C I18N WG Chair
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