Re: Utility to report and repair broken surrogate pairs in UTF-16 text

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Jim Monty <jim dot monty at yahoo dot com> wrote:

> I'm surprised I'm having difficulty finding an existing utility
> to repair broken UTF-16 text. I thought this was something many
> programmers would need, especially Web developers.

It may be that broken UTF-16 text doesn't appear that often in the real
world. Certainly it's a test case that should be detected and handled
(and I always do so when rolling my own transcoders), but perhaps not
many people besides you have actually been bitten such that they needed
such a tool.

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