RE: What does it mean to "not be a valid string in Unicode"?

Markus Scherer <markus dot icu at gmail dot com> wrote:

> Also, we commonly read code points from 16-bit Unicode strings, and
> unpaired surrogates are returned as themselves and treated as such
> (e.g., in collation). That would not be well-formed UTF-16, but it's
> generally harmless in text processing.

But still non-conformant.

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