> Which is to completely reverse the current recommendation in Unicode 9.0. > While I agree that this might help you fending off a bug report, it would > create chances for bug reports for Ruby, Python3, many if not all Web > browsers,...
& Windows & .Net Changing the behavior of the Windows / .Net SDK is a non-starter. > Essentially, "overlong" is a word like "dragon" or "ghost": Everybody knows > what it means, but everybody knows they don't exist. Yes, this is trying to improve the language for a scenario that CANNOT HAPPEN. We're trying to optimize a case for data that implementations should never encounter. It is sort of exactly like optimizing for the case where your data input is actually a dragon and not UTF-8 text. Since it is illegal, then the "at least 1 FFFD but as many as you want to emit (or just fail)" is fine. -Shawn
