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Re: Lone surrogates in UTF-8? (was: Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?)
On Sep 27 22:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I have a local implementation. for the entire thing,
>
> - Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-N
> - invalid \xXX bytes -> U+ffXX
U+f0XX (same as the invalid ASCII chars)
^
> - Allow CESU-8 sequences for lone surrogate halves
> - Change documentation accordingly.
>
> except for the interface to a potential setcons tool, which is low
> priority for now.
>
> I'll apply the Cygwin parts and send the newlib patch upstream tomorrow.
>
> If you want to play with it, the entire patch is here (missing a ChangeLog
> for now):
>
> http://cygwin.de/hopefully-last-big-cygwin-locale-patch.diff
>
> Testing highly appreciated. Patches, too, especially against the
> documentation. I don't think I explained that adequately.
Corinna
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