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Bug 16711 - 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).
Summary: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Character_General_Category ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-04-12 11:21 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-04-12 11:21:43 UTC 
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

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Comment 1 Anne 2012-04-12 12:34:46 UTC 
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.
Comment 2 Anne 2012-04-12 12:36:49 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: See comment 1.