Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #3783, comment 9


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03/09/17 00:34:08 (8 years ago)
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  • Ticket #3783, comment 9

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    23 which interprets the lone invalid UTF-8 byte as unsigned 169 and is assigned to the Unicode character, this is semantically the Latin-1 -> UTF-8 conversion. The rest goes on as if this was read as a valid 1-byte character. 
     23which interprets the lone invalid UTF-8 byte as unsigned 169 and is assigned to the Unicode character, this is semantically the Latin-1 -> Unicode conversion. The rest goes on as if this was read as a valid 1-byte character. 
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    2525The pattern of denoting and carrying invalid UTF-8 bytes as negative numbers is really weird to me. I'm inclined to say that the old design worked "accidentally". At least I don't recall ever thinking about it during my viewer rewrite.