RE: Feedback on the proposal to change U+FFFD generation when decoding ill-formed UTF-8

From: Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:18:15 -0700

Hans Åberg wrote:

>> Far from solving the stated problem, it would introduce a new one:
>> conversion from the "bad data" Unicode code points, currently
>> well-defined, would become ambiguous.
>
> Actually not: just translate the invalid UTF-8 sequences into invalid
> UTF-32.

Far from solving the stated problem, it would introduce TWO new ones...
 

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