On Mon, 15 May 2017 21:38:26 +0000 David Starner via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> > and the fact is that handling surrogates (which is what proponents > > of UTF-8 or UCS-4 usually focus on) is no more complicated than > > handling combining characters, which you have to do anyway. > Not necessarily; you can legally process Unicode text without worrying > about combining characters, whereas you cannot process UTF-16 without > handling surrogates. The problem with surrogates is inadequate testing. They're sufficiently rare for many users that it may be a long time before an error is discovered. It's not always obvious that code is designed for UCS-2 rather than UTF-16. Richard.
