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

From: Mike (mike-list@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 19:53:34 CDT

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    > Nobody has yet answered the question of *what good* it would do to
    > preserve binary garbage in a UTF-8 or UTF-8-like text stream. Do we
    > impose a similar requirement on other Unicode text encodings, or other
    > non-Unicode text encodings?

    It is so easy to create valid UTF-8, that it's hard to imagine this
    is a real issue. The idea of "invalid-UTF8" is about as bad as
    "text/invalid-xml" would be. Reject it, and we will all be better
    off.

    Mike



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