Re: Feedback on the proposal to change U+FFFD generation when decoding ill-formed UTF-8

From: Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 18:07:34 +0200

> On 16 May 2017, at 17:52, Alastair Houghton <alastair_at_alastairs-place.net> wrote:
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> On 16 May 2017, at 16:44, Hans Åberg <haberg-1_at_telia.com> wrote:
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>> On 16 May 2017, at 17:30, Alastair Houghton via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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>>> HFS(+), NTFS and VFAT long filenames are all encoded in some variation on UCS-2/UTF-16. ...
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>> The filesystem directory is using octet sequences and does not bother passing over an encoding, I am told. Someone could remember one that to used UTF-16 directly, but I think it may not be current.
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> No, that’s not true. All three of those systems store UTF-16 on the disk (give or take).

I am not speaking about what they store, but how the filesystem identifies files.
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