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diff --git a/doc/bugs/UTF-16_and_UTF-32_are_unhandled.mdwn b/doc/bugs/UTF-16_and_UTF-32_are_unhandled.mdwn index 21df334a8..9e8fba4b9 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/UTF-16_and_UTF-32_are_unhandled.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/UTF-16_and_UTF-32_are_unhandled.mdwn @@ -18,3 +18,12 @@ BOMless LE and BE input is probably a lost cause. Optimally, UTF-16 (which is ubiquitous in the Windows world) and UTF-32 should be fully supported, probably by converting to mostly-UTF-8 and using `&#xXXXX;` or `&#DDDDD;` XML escapes where necessary. Suboptimally, UTF-16 and UTF-32 should be converted to UTF-8 where cleanly possible and a warning printed where impossible. + +---- +Reading the wikipedia pages about [[!wikipedia UTF-8]] and [[!wikipedia UTF-16]], all valid Unicode characters are representable in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32, and the only errors possible with UTF-16/32 -> UTF-8 translation are when there are encoding errors in the original document. + +Of course, it's entirely possible that not all browsers support utf-8 correctly, and we might need to support the option of encoding into [[!wikipedia CESU-8]] instead, which has the side-effect of allowing the transcription of UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoding errors into the output byte-stream, rather than pedantically removing those bytes. + +An interesting question would be how to determine the character set of an arbitrary new file added to the repository, unless the repository itself handles character-encoding, in which case, we can just ask the repository to hand us a UTF-8 encoded version of the file. + +-- [[Martin Rudat|http://www.toraboka.com/~mrudat]] |