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

Shawn Steele via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Tue May 30 17:51:30 CDT 2017


> Until TUS 3.1, it was legal for UTF-8 parsers to treat the sequence <C0 AF> as U+002F.

Sort of, maybe.  It was not legal for them to generate it though.  So you could kind of infer that it was not a legal sequence.

-Shawn



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