RE: Conformance (was UTF, BOM, etc)

From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2005 - 13:06:45 CST

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    > > And if, speculatively, Windows were to support UTF-8 as a
    > > code page, the
    > > situation would be unchanged. Byte sequences which are
    > > illegal UTF-8 are
    > > garbage in that code page and so would correctly be replaced
    > > by U+FFFD.
    >
    > Which is exactly what needs to be changed. 128 codepoints, remember?

    128 flavours of garbage.

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    Jon Hanna
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