Mark Leisher <mleisher(_at_)crl(_dot_)nmsu(_dot_)edu> writes:
Peter> Mark Leisher then replied:
>> If the converted string contains 0xFFFF, it will be pretty clear the
>> source text had bogus characters the moment you display it.
Peter> According to Nick's translated doc the first character on the third
Peter> line of the .enc file is the one to be displayed if the Encode
Peter> module cannot figure out what to do with a given character.
According to the docs, the third number is used when converting from Unicode
(UTF-8) back to this encoding, not when converting from this encoding into
Unicode.
Presumably that is because "by definition" Unicode can represent anything ;-)
There are some inconsistencies in the doc file that I'll change later and post
for comments.
Please do.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
