Re: What does it mean to "not be a valid string in Unicode"?

That's not the point (see successive messages).

Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>wrote:

> On 2013/01/08 3:27, Markus Scherer wrote:
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> Also, we commonly read code points from 16-bit Unicode strings, and
>> unpaired surrogates are returned as themselves and treated as such (e.g.,
>> in collation). That would not be well-formed UTF-16, but it's generally
>> harmless in text processing.
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> Things like this are called "garbage in, garbage-out" (GIGO). It may be
> harmless, or it may hurt you later.
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> Regards, Martin.
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Received on Mon Jan 07 2013 - 19:19:59 CST