16711 2012-04-12 11:21:43 +0000 According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Character_General_Category there are certain noncharacter code points are guaranteed never to be used for encoding characters (in particular U+FDD0..U+FDEF and code point ending in the value FFFE or FFFF). 2012-07-18 18:40:55 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#utf-8 P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk mike contributor oldest_to_newest 66659 0 contributor 2012-04-12 11:21:43 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#utf-8 Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#utf-8 Comment: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Character_General_Category there are certain noncharacter code points are guaranteed never to be used for encoding characters (in particular U+FDD0..U+FDEF and code point ending in the value FFFE or FFFF). You should better require that these codepoints are also to be replaced by a single U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER Posted from: 84.182.193.60 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.15 Safari/536.5 66663 1 annevk 2012-04-12 12:34:46 +0000 That would violate the utf-8 specification. FWIW, this particular section will be obsoleted by http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/encoding/raw-file/tip/Overview.html (once that is slightly more done) in due course. 66664 2 annevk 2012-04-12 12:36:49 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: <http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html>. Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: See comment 1.