From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <00ec01c37784$cbe421e0$c901a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: , <16d2f27efa70d6b1ca98ab72d6c91245@mightycheese.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:17:49 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 308804fa-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I guess I somehow missed what is hard about UTF-8 synchronization. By design there is no problem. > Since an encoding error should "never" occur, we thought it > better to stop scanning rather that plow ahead and convert some > unknown amount of garbage once synchronization has been lost.