[Development] A bug or not a bug, that's the question

[Kurt Pattyn]

On 26 Aug 2013, at 14:26, Christoph Feck <christoph at maxiom.de> wrote:

> What do you mean with "maintained as is"? The document you cite does 
> not mention anything related to invalid UTF-8.

Unicode strictly requires no loss of information when going between the different representations.
Currently the QTextCodec class replaces the non-character codes with a replacement character.
Because there was much confusion whether non-character codes were valid or not, the corrigendum was published.
That document clearly states that they are valid for interchange.

I did the test with UTF-8 encoded non-characters, and QTextCodec fails, so it is not unicode compliant.

> Since this is the Qt development list, please discuss code changes 
> needed to clarify what you mean.

I don't have any problem of solving this myself, but first I want to be sure if this is considered by the Qt developers as a bug, before I move on.
I am quite new to this list, so I don't know whether this was intentional or not. For that, I don't need to point to code I think.
Looking into the unit tests of QTextCodec, you can clearly see that non-characters are explicitly not allowed (so, the QTextCodec behaves as intended).
So, was this intentional?

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