Re: [css-fonts-3] i18n-ISSUE-296: Usable characters in unicode-range

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:27 PM, John C Klensin <john+w3c@jck.com> wrote:
> It is a somewhat different issue but, coming back to Jonathan's
> comment quoted above, I think one can make the case that a
> string that contains sufficiently invalid Unicode is an invalid
> string and that all of it should be shown as hexboxes or
> equivalent because the application cannot really know what was
> intended and telling the user that may be better than guessing.

You could make that case, but it would never happen. Apart from
performance issues (long string with a lone surrogate at the end) it's
not compatible with deployed web content.


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Received on Friday, 13 September 2013 11:34:47 UTC