Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:01:55PM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > >> That reminds me of this this question. What is a (de jure|de facto) >> standard for fallback character? Is it up to each module? >> FYI My humble Jcode uses "blank square" (aka Tofu) and MacOS X uses >> single '?'. > >links uses '*', which I find easier to read than '?' > >(for all those *****y MSHTML pages that allege ISO-8859-1 and then use >MS sexed '', where the server should be reporting the page as Windows charset) > >I believe that the fallback should be configurable on a per-something >basis (per charset?) which then leaves us debating what the default should >be.
The existing encoding mechanisms provide a fallback character on a per-encoding basis for Unicode->xxxx direction. It is usually '?' for ASCII-oids. What is not yet clear is how the API should enable that vs stopping vs ... I agree that xxxx->Unicode should use U+FFFD - which is what it is for. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
