Corrigendum #9

[Doug Ewell]

Richard Wordingham <richard dot wordingham at ntlworld dot com> wrote:

> At present there is no certainty as to whether
> an interchanged file in the UTF-16 encoding scheme that appears to
> contain a BOM contains a BOM or starts with U+FFFE. The only
> promise is that such a file contains an even number of data bytes.
> Any such sequence is valid! Will the UTF-16 encoding scheme be
> withdrawn?

One might wonder, given how frequently we hear that unpaired surrogates
also occur in the wild and need to be tolerated.

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