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

[Alastair Houghton via Unicode]

> On 23 May 2017, at 18:45, Markus Scherer via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>> So, if the proposal for Unicode really was more of a "feels right" and not a "deviate at your peril" situation (or necessary escape hatch), then we are better off not making a RECOMMEDATION that goes against collective practice.
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> I think the standard is quite clear about this:
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> Although a UTF-8 conversion process is required to never consume well-formed subsequences as part of its error handling for ill-formed subsequences, such a process is not otherwise constrained in how it deals with any ill-formed subsequence itself. An ill-formed subsequence consisting of more than one code unit could be treated as a single error or as multiple errors.

Agreed.  That paragraph is entirely clear.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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