Corner cases (was: Re: UTF-16 Encoding Scheme and U+FFFE)

[Doug Ewell]

Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

> Not necessarily true.
>
> [602 words]

This has nothing to do with the scenario I described, which involved
removing a "BOM" from the start of an arbitrary fragment of data,
thereby corrupting the data because the "BOM" was actually a ZWNBSP.

If you have an arbitrary fragment of data, don't fiddle with it.

If you know enough about the data to fiddle with it safely, it's not
arbitrary.

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