Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote: > But I challenge you to find anything in the standard that > *prohibits* such sequences from occurring.
I've learned that this question of "illegal" or "invalid" character sequences is one of the main distinguishing factors between those who truly understand Unicode and those who are still on the Road to Enlightenment. Very, very few sequences of Unicode characters are truly "invalid" or "illegal." Unpaired surrogates are a rare exception. In almost all cases, a given sequence might give unexpected results (e.g. putting a combining diacritic before the base character) or might be ineffectual (e.g. putting a variation selector before an arbitrary character), but it is still perfectly legal to encode and exchange such a sequence. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
