At 09:59 PM 5/8/02 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Peter_Constable at sil dot org wrote:
>
> > I think Jim is asking for clarification in the text of the Standard
> > and not just in a response to him, but in case anyone isn't sure,
> > the four that are excluded are U+FFFFE, U+FFFFF, U+10FFFE and
> > U+10FFFF.
> >
> > And don't bother asking for a good reason *why* they are excluded:
> > there isn't any good reason why; they just are.
>
>I know it's popular to say there's no good reason for these to be
>excluded, but at least excluding the U+xxFFFE code points helps prevent
>UTF-32LE from being detected as big-endian UTF-16 with BOM:
>
> Big-endian UTF-16: FE FF .. ..
> U+xxFFFE in UTF-32LE: FE FF xx 00
>
>-Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
This may in fact be the reason they were all excluded, although no actual
reason was ever discovered - lost in the mists of time, or early 10646 history.
A./
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