RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

Every time I look at #Unicode gotchas, I 😰:

“RFC 9839 And Bad Unicode”, Tim Bray (www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...).

On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499...

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#UTF #Encoding #Text #RFC #RFC9839 #Validation #ErrorHandling #UTF8

Original post on graz.social

«Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain #Unicode characters encoded in #UTF8. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”

This issue keeps coming up, so […]