On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:57 , Matthew Mondor wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:16:16 +0200 Robert Strandh strandh@labri.fr wrote:
I would certainly consider contributing to such a CDR document, in particular in areas where I have already experienced the need for more specific conditions.
It would also be nice to suggest behaviour for character encoding/decoding conditions and recovery restarts. In implementations supporting unicode streams for instance, UTF-8 decoding/encoding errors can happen inadvertently on streams with unicode external formats, and user code must be able to cope gracefully.
This is IMHO very complicated instead, for the simple reason that it seems to me that each implementation disagrees on the actual interface to UNICODE and UTF-8. IMHO what is needed before this is a "standardization" of UNICODE, UTF-8, etc features across implementations. Whether this is achievable or not it is a matter of debate.
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