Re: utf8u tag proposal

William Spitzak <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:25:00 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

 > Firstly, I do it because a .NET string might contain invalid
surrogate pairs that,

This was mentioned before. I want to point out that Microsoft and .NET 
is doing UTF-16 *correctly*. "invalid sequences" are allowed in the 
arrays, and detecting and handling them is correctly deferred until 
display. This is because Microsoft does have some intelligent 
programmers on their staff, who know how to design a system so it is 
practical to implement.

Note that the tiny fact that they allow "invalid UTF-16" means you 
suddely see a need to store it. Please realize the same situation is 
true for UTF-8!

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