Re: perl unicode support

["Daniel B." <dsb@xxxxxxxxx>]

???????? wrote:
> 
> > If they're supposed to be UTF-8 and aren't, then certainly normal
> > tools shouldn't have to deal with malformed sequences.  If you write
> > a special tool to fix malformed sequences somehow (e.g., delete files
> > with malformed sequences), then of course you're going to be dealing
> > with the byte level and not (just) the character level.
> 
> If normal tools completely wet the bed at the sight of malformed sequences,
> then they are poorly designed.

Some of them are following specifications (e.g., the specifications that
say certain UTF-8 readers (and XML processor, maybe?) should reject 
malformed sequences or reject inputs with malformed sequences (for 
security reasons)).



Daniel

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