Re: Displaying malformed UTF-8 sequences in an editor

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bram Moolenaar wrote on 2000-07-24 10:34 UTC:
> Try out the new Vim version 6.0c.  It keeps malformed sequences.  Displaying
> them isn't working well though.  I could use some suggestions on how to do
> that.  Perhaps it's best to display each malformed byte with a special
> character?

I would expect an editor to treat bytes of malformed UTF-8 sequences
just like an ASCII editor treats upper half ISO 8859 characters. One
very common convention is to represent them as a backslash followed by
three octal digits as in \377. "Less" writes <9C> in inverse, which is
probably nicer. Something like that (hex is typically far more useful
than octal).

Markus

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