Re: Unused code positions and mapping to Unicode

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 16:09:40 EDT

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Murray Sargent wrote:

> The point is that Unicode
> _does_ define these positions as the C1 controls. As such, they should not
> be mapped to 0xFFFD, although undefined character codes should be so mapped.

This begs the question. In Windows code pages, those characters are
not controls, but are undefined character codes.

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