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* Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> [2012-07-04T21:03:01] > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:29:48PM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote: > > I don't personally have any ideas, there just seemed to be a lot of > > tickets related to this issue, and it wasn't clear that they should all > > be immediately closed as wontfix. If we end up making that decision, > > this will at least make it easier to clear out the tracker. > > I think they should be wontfix. I agree. I have a filehandle with encoding(utf-8). It is a sequence of two-byte sequences. I seek to the second byte of a pair and read. What should happen? In UTF-8, there is no ambiguity. I have clearly tried to read mid-sequence. It could die or it could return a replacement character, rewind, or skip ahead, and warn while doing any of those. The layer could allow picking from these, and I'm usually a fan of "when in doubt, die." But anyway, there's no ambiguity, so we're good. My understanding is that there exist encodings where we cannot so easily determine our position (whether we are mid-sequence or not). I don't know of any off hand, though. What about those? I really think the answer is going to be along the lines of "the layer can try to help tell you that you messed up, but don't *do* that. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next