I would like to know if there is consensus that producing mojibake is always a bug.

                           Peter

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> Subject: Re: [SG16] Towards a better description of the execution encoding
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> On 02/03/2021 10.35, Corentin via SG16 wrote:
> > My intent is to say " The standard assumes that all strings are
> interpreted by local specific functions as being encoded by the execution
> encoding and if that's not the case, you will get mojibake or any other
> behavior that may be the result of your input not being interpreted
> correctly"
>
> Why do we have to say anything here, beyond possibly clarifying the
> locale-dependent functions such as isalpha that they're not talking
> about a character set (or characters), but about an encoding of such?
>
> The fact that we've divorced the literal encoding from the execution
> encoding is exactly because they are entirely unrelated, as sad as
> that may be. "Unrelated" means no constraints, and we don't need to
> spend text in the standard (beyond a note or two) specifying the
> absence of restrictions.
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> Any time the introduction of limited constraints was brought up here
> in the past month, a real-world counterexample was quickly found,
> where we'd shy away from making it non-conforming.
>
> Jens
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