Re: UTF-8 Error Handling (was: Re: Unicode 4.0 BETA available for review)

From: Yung-Fong Tang (ftang@netscape.com)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 16:00:18 EST

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    >Likewise, the Unicode Standard tells you what a well-formed
    >UTF-8 byte sequence is. But it is the software designer who has
    >to be smart about determining what his/her software will do when
    >it encounters an error condition and finds itself dealing
    >with a sequence which is ill-formed according to the specification
    >of UTF-8 in the Unicode Standard.
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    or higher level specification, such as XML specification, SOAP
    specification, CSS2 specification, etc.
    There are many many layers between Unicode standard and a software
    application. Not just the code itself....

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    >--Ken
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