Re: less-344 with UTF-8

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk>]

Is there a recommendation anywhere on how to deal with illegal UTF-8?
For communication between a program and a library, for example, I've
been simply ignoring the bad octets, something like:

  while ((k = mbtowc(&wc, s, n))) {
    if (k == -1) {
      ++s, --n;
      continue;
    }
    s += k, n -= k;
    do_something_with(wc);
  }

If this were a standard way to behave, then perhaps xterm should just
ignore bad octets, too.

Edmund
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