[PATCH] Fix UTF-16 surrogate handling in __utf8_mbtowc

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 28 18:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The downside of this implementation is that an application could be
> happy with the result after only having read the first three bytes
> of the four byte sequence from the input string and just stop.  This
> results in an incomplete surrogate pair.  However, as far as I can see
> it's rather unlikely, and it's still better that not handling Unicode
> values outside the base plane at all.

Oh, btw, the same could of course already happen with the old
implementation, so that's not a regression.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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