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According to Linda Walsh on 11/23/2009 4:59 PM:
> Instead of using random characters out of the 'random free area' --
> which could display as anything if you aren't in cygwin, depending
> on what charset you have loaded,  why not use 'dedicated' unicode
> characters that map to the signs for those characters?  They aren't
> exactly equivalent, as they include some built-in display spacing,
> BUT, they would display a colon as a colon, "*" as a asterisk, etc.

But then, how would you distinguish between the valid UTF-16 replacement
used to represent an invalid character, and a valid UTF-16 character
representing itself?  I'm sorry, but the value of a 1-to-1 round trip
mapping outweighs the convenience of displaying a glyph that looks the
same but causes ambiguous round trip conversions.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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