Re: #'query-coding-region and invalid Unicode sequences.
Ar an séú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Aidan Kehoe:
Ar an séú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:
> My personal feeling is that normally an attempt to use a Unicode
> coding system to decode something that is invalid according to that
> system should be a fatal error, unless the user requests otherwise.
> (Yes, we *must* provide for that request before taking this step,
> though.) This is pragmatic, not dogmatic; I've seen too many reports
> of irreversible data corruption from "DTRT" codecs.
Right, I agree. This question is about the API for that. F1 f
query-coding-region RET --- should there be a preserve-invalid-sequence
argument? Where?
Ah, on reading more closely we don’t agree on that. I want to do this on
*encoding*, interactively. I don’t want to change the non-interactive
behaviour or the behaviour on decoding.
Replacing an invalid code unit with a marker on decoding is endorsed by the
Unicode people, by the way.
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