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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by Avernar on Sunday June 19, 2016 @11:59PM (#11935970)
Why should it crash? The proper procedure when validating a UTF-8 string is to replace errors with U+FFFD.

The term character has many meanings. Graphemes are characters and that's what most users expect, something that's displayed as a single graphical unit.

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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by paulddraper on Monday June 20, 2016 @09:07PM (#11942831)
I use "character" in the same way that the Unicode Consortium uses the word. Though "code point" would be more precise.
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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by Avernar on Monday June 20, 2016 @11:25PM (#11943267)
That's what they were hoping for. Didn't tuen out thst way. From icu-project.org:

"As with glyphs, there is no one-to-one relationship between characters and code points. What an end-user thinks of as a single character (grapheme) may in fact be represented by multiple code points; conversely, a single code point may correspond to multiple characters."

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