Re: [icu-support] complete binary/utf mapping

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2007 - 08:45:07 CDT

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    Doug Ewell wrote:

    > I'll see if I can find the thread where we talked about that, years ago.
    >
    > Somebody wanted to build that capability into an extension to UTF-8,
    > so it could faithfully represent invalid garbage. We were never able
    > to get him to work through what he wanted to do with the garbage thus
    > preserved.
    >
    Is there an obvious reason we couldn't just treat the garbage UTF-8 as a
    string of 8-bit characters (might be part of a binary file or something)
    and base-64 encode them? That'll definitely preserve round-trippedness.

    ~mark

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