RE: Subject: Re: 32'nd bit & UTF-8

From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2005 - 12:05:42 CST

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    I've just
    > created a file containing U+FFFF on NTFS. Now tell me how to
    > process the filenames using a conformant Unicode application.
    > I cannot, hence I deduct that this is not text and should be
    > treated as binary data.

    I deduct that the software sucks. It seems more reasonable to consider it
    broken text than to consider it not text.

    Regards,
    Jon Hanna
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