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

On Wed, 31 May 2017 19:24:04 +0000
Shawn Steele via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> It seems to me that being able to use a data stream of ambiguous
> quality in another application with predictable results, then that
> stream should be “repaired” prior to being handed over. Then both
> endpoints would be using the same set of FFFDs, whether that was
> single or multiple forms.

This of course depends on where the damage is being done. You're
urging that applications check the strings they have generated as they
export them.

Richard.
Received on Wed May 31 2017 - 15:20:21 CDT