Fwd: New invalid UTF-8 proposal using tags and %nn

Brad R <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Brad R <[email protected]> wrote:

> If the default/required behavior of the library is to return a language
> specific string when it can (option 3), then, in my opinion, it probably
> should not, by default, handle how invalid byte sequences are encoded into
> that string. In other words, the default behavior would be to only convert
> the bytes into a language specific string if the byte sequence is valid for
> that string type. A library should then expose options to change this
> behavior (with a tag handler being the most flexible choice).
>

I've thought better of the way I said that... when I talk about only
converting bytes into a language specific string here, the byte sequence is
being treated as UTF-8, regardless of the language string type, as Oren
described. So, unless the native string type being used is a UTF-8 byte
sequence (with allowance for invalid bytes), the implication of what I said
is that the default behavior would be to only convert valid UTF-8 byte
sequences to the native string type and leave others as a binary array.

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