Re: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

2001-07-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's a pity that UTF-16 doesn't encode characters up to U+F, such > that code points corresponding to lone surrogates can be encoded as > pairs of surrogates. Unfortunately, we would then be stuck with what happens when two such surroga

Re: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

2001-07-03 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
27 Jun 2001 13:38:33 +0100, Gaute B Strokkenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > I would be indebted if any of the experts who hang out on the > unicode list could sort out this confusion. I would be glad if the resolution allowed UTF-8 and UTF-32 encoders and decoders to not worry about surrogates a

Re: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

2001-06-27 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Mark Davis wrote: > Your are correct in that the text is not nearly as clear as it should be, > and is open to different interpretations. My view of the status in Unicode > 3.1 is represented on http://www.macchiato.com/utc/utf_comparison.htm. > Corresponding computations are on > http://www.macc

RE: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

2001-06-27 Thread Carl W. Brown
Mark, > Your are correct in that the text is not nearly as clear as it should be, > and is open to different interpretations. My view of the status in Unicode > 3.1 is represented on http://www.macchiato.com/utc/utf_comparison.htm. > Corresponding computations are on > http://www.macchiato.com/ut

Re: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Davis
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Re: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

2001-06-27 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [earlier correspondents] >>> Personally, I think that the codecs should report an error in the >>> appropriate fashion when presented with a python unicode string >>> which contains values that are not allowed, such as lone >>> surrogates. >> >>