On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> So, if the proposal for Unicode really was more of a "feels right" and not > a "deviate at your peril" situation (or necessary escape hatch), then we > are better off not making a RECOMMEDATION that goes against collective > practice. > I think the standard is quite clear about this: Although a UTF-8 conversion process is required to never consume well-formed subsequences as part of its error handling for ill-formed subsequences, such a process is not otherwise constrained in how it deals with any ill-formed subsequence itself. An ill-formed subsequence consisting of more than one code unit could be treated as a single error or as multiple errors. markus
