RE: Utility to report and repair broken surrogate pairs in UTF-16 text

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Jim Monty <jim dot monty at yahoo dot com> wrote:

> Is there a utility, preferably open source and written in C, that inspects
> UTF-16/UTF-16BE/UTF-16LE text and identifies broken surrogate pairs and illegal
> characters? Ideally, the utility can both report illegal code units and "repair"
> them by replacing them with U+FFFD.

What's an "illegal" character, for purposes of this exercise? Do you
mean a noncharacter, or something else?

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