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

[Hans Åberg via Unicode]

> On 16 May 2017, at 17:52, Alastair Houghton <alastair at alastairs-place.net> wrote:
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> On 16 May 2017, at 16:44, Hans Åberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:
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>> On 16 May 2017, at 17:30, Alastair Houghton via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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>>> HFS(+), NTFS and VFAT long filenames are all encoded in some variation on UCS-2/UTF-16. ...
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>> 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.
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> No, that’s not true.  All three of those systems store UTF-16 on the disk (give or take).

I am not speaking about what they store, but how the filesystem identifies files.