Re: Thank you for all the good information, sUTF32ToUTF8 function

From: Markus Scherer ([email protected])
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 13:05:28 EST

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> Any suggestions on what the right way to deal with "surrogate" codepoints
> in this algorithm? They should not occur in the data, but what if they do?

Either encode them as 3-byte UTF-8, or throw an exception etc.
Note that ISO 10646-UTF-8 forbids encoding them at all, and it looks like Unicode-UTF-8 is going that direction.

markus

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