From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use the Unicode replacement character for replacing unencodable characters into UTF-16
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:19:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2mcdizb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7399CD85-E381-4BE6-81D6-10AA9FC56685@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:36:10 +0200)
> Feedback-ID: mattiase@acm.or
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:36:10 +0200
>
> The attached patch makes sure that non-Unicode characters are replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER instead of a space when converting to UTF-16. (The space is from all evidence a historical accident.)
Can you describe under which circumstances this default-character will
be used?
The issue that bothers me is whether u+FFFD can appear in situations
where it cannot be displayed by Emacs, because then the result will be
more confusing than helping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-18 15:36 Use the Unicode replacement character for replacing unencodable characters into UTF-16 Mattias Engdegård
2020-08-18 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-18 17:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-08-18 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 19:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
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