[vorbis] UTF8_LANG: a much better idea

[Glenn Maynard]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:36:01PM -0800, mike dillon wrote:
> While this may be the case, that still requires recognizing those
> characters as special, regardless of whether they are ignored or not.
> Older Unicode implementation will do with those characters just as they
> do with other unrecognized characters, which may result in '???' or some
> such showing up on the screen (since we can't turn back time to make
> such hypothetical implementations act differently). This may be a moot
> point, if most implementations treat unrecognized characters as
> zero-width and not affecting any other aspects of processing, but this
> doesn't seem likely to me. If anyone knows otherwise, I'd be glad to
> hear.

In a sense, this isn't optional; it's in the Unicode standard, *must* be
able to ignore it properly.  They don't need to *do* anything with it, of
course, but it'd be perfectly valid to put these characters in a tag today,
even if we don't specifically mention it.


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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