Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> If you have an arbitrary fragment of data, don't fiddle with it.
>
> Thisis your scenario. The simple concept of a unique "start" of text
> does not exist in live streams that can start anywhere. So you cannot
> always expect that U+FEFF or U+FFFE will only exist once in
"Doug Ewell" wrote:
|Philippe Verdy wrote:
|> Not necessarily true.
|>
|> [602 words]
|
|This has nothing to do with the scenario I described, which involved
|removing a "BOM" from the start of an arbitrary fragment of data,
|thereby corrupting the data because the "BOM" was actually a ZW
On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 01:55:57 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> IMHO, a programming language that accepts non-ASCII identifiers should
> always nrmalize the identifiers it accepts, before heeding it in its
> hashed symbol table.
Unfortunately, C and C++ don't normalise. Consequently, all a compiler
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