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Re: [I18ndir] [art] Just uploaded draft-bray-unichars-03

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Sun, 10 September 2023 17:57 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:57:39 -0700
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 10:52 AM Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

>
> Wow. I had no idea. As with many aspects of Java+Unicode, this feels
> deeply wrong. It should either round-trip or throw a damn exception.
> Anyhow, that ship sailed a long time ago.  I think we should include the
> Java example to illustrate another way that surrogates can lead to breakage.
>

I think this one might be best kept in the basement filing cabinet next to
WTF-8*.

If you really look, you'll find stuff like this:
https://docs.rs/jni/latest/jni/strings/index.html

"Wrapper for std::ffi::CStr that also takes care of encoding between UTF-8
and Java’s Modified UTF-8."

/shudder/

thanks,
Rob

* https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

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