Re: Purpose of REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

From: Erik van der Poel (erik@netscape.com)
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 13:08:42 EDT


Yes, I think that's what we (Netscape) did with our "to Unicode"
converters. In our "from Unicode" converters, we typically use '?'.

Erik

Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> If I implement a UTF-8 -> UCS-2 converter, what shall I do with
> malformed UTF-8 sequences? ISO 10646-1 in section 2.3c and section R.7
> clearly requires that malformed UTF-8 sequences are indicated to the
> user. Is replacing any malformed UTF-8 sequence by 0xFFFD appropriate
> use of this character?



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