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* Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> [2013-09-07T03:51:14] > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>wrote: > > > 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. > > iso-2022 is the most notorious one, though I'm not sure people use it > outside of MIME. Shift-JIS is another one. Though even UTF-16 can have the > issue if you're silly enough to do an odd seek. > > This is all very "Doctor, it hurts when I press here" to me. Yes, as I said: don't *do* that :-) Oh, and with UTF-16, so I see! It hadn't occurred to me, but it's painfully obvious, isn't it? -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next