Most tools will probably simply pass them on. Replacing them with U+FFFD would corrupt existing data.
On March 23, 2015 7:10:34 PM PDT, Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA512 > >On 03/23/2015 04:57 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: >> If we crash on unexpected input then that's a problem that needs >> fixing. But if they just show up as invalid character replacements >> then that's a problem with whatever created it, not parted. > >Technically, yes, but if most other major partitioning tools accept >such characters and write them to disk using the multi word encodings, >and can read them back, then I'd be in favor of following suit in the >name of improved functionality and interoperability. I just don't >think we should start doing that first, and then the other tools >rightly reject the encodings as invalid. > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1 > >iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVEMeaAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RUv4H/AsigQD4tDkgyLXuXgMxIt4C >UlkV1grAT6LqjFSliRFA/IDJ1eMN5GYq1eryaZSAvYPMbl4fvy6t0Ek0DcOdXDWJ >rfmS2zyHG/TO3itF90gooAkZBf0reIV/9hy82z88qTHDr/sfSnHgNr8M/nEtGbnD >pGOWlZersVAjaoYDxvkpKo4o6sJBZIKPGDGjRfXn9rx56EhMOQv3LVCd7jxvY/Pv >XkY/WjYdb+TTm2sPtTzmb2NUh4dygHMyiYyuYl5K4zQAevYWFBLWAztidPjLK94h >8WBYwOZGYt13JlcOjLlD09eQQ6CE6JmBLoMcR2INpqcC+aZqAaAYnip9dGv09Yg= >=BOKg >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting.
