Feedback on the proposal to change U+FFFD generation when decoding ill-formed UTF-8

[Hans Åberg via Unicode]

> On 16 May 2017, at 17:30, Alastair Houghton via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> On 16 May 2017, at 14:23, Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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>> You don't. You have a filename, which is a octet sequence of unknown encoding, and want to deal with it. Therefore, valid Unicode transformations of the filename may result in that is is not being reachable.
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>> It only matters that the correct octet sequence is handed back to the filesystem. All current filsystems, as far as experts could recall, use octet sequences at the lowest level; whatever encoding is used is built in a layer above. 
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> HFS(+), NTFS and VFAT long filenames are all encoded in some variation on UCS-2/UTF-16. ...

The filesystem directory is using octet sequences and does not bother passing over an encoding, I am told. Someone could remember one that to used UTF-16 directly, but I think it may not be current.