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"Carl W. Brown" wrote:
> Proposed unknown and missing character representation. This would be an
> alternate to method currently described in 5.3.
>
> The missing or unknown character would be represented as a series of
> vertical hex digit pairs for each byte of the character.
Why vertical? Hexadecimal is almost invariably written left-to-right,
top-to-bottom, and that's the order I would expect.
> Garbage data with non-zero bits 24-31 may require 8 digits or 4 pairs of
> digits.
I thought this proposal was intended for characters that cannot be
rendered by a font, not ill-formed encodings?
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