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Re: [Nano-devel] dodgy item in the TODO list
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: [Nano-devel] dodgy item in the TODO list |
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Thu, 28 May 2015 11:54:05 -0400 |
On 28 May 2015 17:08, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One item in nano's TODO list says this:
>
> - Fix handling of bad/incomplete UTF-8 sequences to display one Unicode
> FFFD (Replacement Character) per sequence instead of one per byte.
>
> But... what if there is a sequence of say twenty bytes of 0x88,
> should all twenty bytes be replaced by a single U+FFFD?
>
> I think it's much more "honest" to show exactly how many bytes of
> invalid codes there are. (As is now properly done, since r5206.)
>
> What do you think?
if it's faster, i'd say do it on a per-byte basis
-mike
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