On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 07:12 , Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
What should Encode:: do in such cases:
A. U+FFFD
B. Map octet to Unicode/iso-8859-1
C. Use a "private use" page...
We should leave option C for those who want to write their own
encoding modules. Whether we should use A or B depends on how iso-8859
(without trailing -number) is supposed to work, which I can be of little
help beyond iso-8859-1.
That reminds me of this this question. What is a (de jure|de facto)
standard for fallback character? Is it up to each module?
FYI My humble Jcode uses "blank square" (aka Tofu) and MacOS X uses
single '?'.
Dan the Man with Too Many Exception Handlings
