On 15 May 2017, at 23:16, Shawn Steele via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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> I’m not sure how the discussion of “which is better” relates to the discussion of ill-formed UTF-8 at all.
It doesn’t, which is a point I made in my original reply to Henry. The only reason I answered his anti-UTF-16 rant at all was to point out that some of us don’t think UTF-16 is a mistake, and in fact can see various benefits (*particularly* as an in-memory representation).
> And to the last, saying “you cannot process UTF-16 without handling surrogates” seems to me to be the equivalent of saying “you cannot process UTF-8 without handling lead & trail bytes”. That’s how the respective encodings work.
Quite.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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