Why Work at Encoding Level?

[Doug Ewell]

This discussion was originally about how to handle unpaired surrogates,
as if that were a normal use case.

Regardless of what encoding model is used to handle characters under the
hood, and regardless of how the Delete key should work with actual
characters or clusters, there is never any excuse for software to create
unpaired surrogates, or any other sort of invalid code unit sequences.
That is like having an image editor that deletes every 128th byte from a
JPEG file, and then worrying about how to display the file.

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Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO ����