Submitter: John Cowan
Email address: cowan_at_ccil.org
Issue type: Defect
Priority: Minor
Component: I/O
Report version: 5.91
Summary: U+FFFD is not meant for encoding errors.
The Unicode character U+FFFD is intended to represent a character
in a non-Unicode encoding which is not representable within Unicode
as currently defined. It is not intended to represent an encoding
error.
The Plan 9 OS uses U+0080, which has no Unicode or ISO defined
meaning, to represent encoding errors. I suggest it.
This affects error-handling-code in 15.3.3 (p. 87).
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Received on Fri Sep 22 2006 - 16:18:12 UTC