Re: illegal UTF-8 sequences and mbtowc()

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Markus Kuhn wrote:

> c) Let's extend UTF-16 to provide an encoding of malformed UTF-8 sequences.
> For instance, we could define in Plane 14 255 bytes that represent
> bytes which were part of an illegal UTF-8 sequence.

Better yet, let's use them to represent arbitrary octets! Then we can
have characters OCTET 00 through OCTET FF, and any binary stuff can be
embedded in Unicode (at a fourfold increase in size for either UTF-8 or
UTF-16).

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