On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 04:23:05PM +0200, Jehan wrote: > I have a simple question. How should we treat invalid/forbidden byte > sequences in mrxvt? This means some sequence of byte which is badly > formed, not to be mistaken with unsupported byte sequence (for instance > unsupported in your font: you have no corresponding "image" for this > character; yet it still exists!). > > - For the latter case (unsupported), there is a clear behaviour to > follow: http://unicode.org/faq/unsup_char.html > In most case, it would mean just displaying the "missing glyph" (in > fonts, it is often some kind of square). > > - But for the former (invalid), I don't know how to behave. The Utf-8 > standard forbids their interpretation: > http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum1.html > From what I read, it means mainly not to try and fix the character > ("guess" what was the expected character to send). This I fully agree. > But this tells nothing about displaying (and I could not find a page > discussing this point). Should I just ignore/dump this sequence of byte > and go to the next valid byte for display (with a debug message)? Or > should I display "something" to tell there was some unprocessable character? > > I would of course think to display the same "replacement/missing glyph" > as for unsupported character, but its meaning is really about characters > that exists but cannot be displayed (missing font character mostly), not > about invalid: http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#replacement_glyph > > So what is your opinion?
Can you see what xterm does, and do the same? GI -- 'eieio' -- A gross misspelling of the word 'farm'.
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