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Feature #15995

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Add encoding conversion for CESU-8 from and to UTF-8

Added by duerst (Martin Dürst) over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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[ruby-core:93680]

Description

As discussed in issue #15931, encoding conversion (transcoding) from/to CESU-8 is missing, so we should add it. When then hopefully can make CESU-8 a dummy encoding.


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #15931: encoding for CESU-8Opennaruse (Yui NARUSE)Actions
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Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) over 4 years ago

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) over 4 years ago

Issue #15931 mentions both https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/tr26-4.html and https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jni/spec/types.html#modified_utf_8_strings as definitions of CESU-8, but they are not identical.

The difference is in how they treat U+0000 (NULL) characters: UTR 26 does not treat it in any special way (i.e. it is encoded as "\x00"), but the Java definition treats specially, encoding it as "\xC0\x80". The IANA registration refers to the Unicode definition (see https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/CESU-8). TR 26 explains that "CESU-8 is useful in 8-bit processing environments where binary collation with UTF-16 is required.". For this to work, U+0000 has to be encoded as "\x00".

Issue #15931 currently implements CESU-8 as defined in UTR 26:

$ ruby -e 'puts "\xC0\x80".force_encoding("cesu-8").valid_encoding?'
false

$ ruby -e 'puts "\x00".force_encoding("cesu-8").valid_encoding?'
true

It is unclear whether this is what the originator of issue #15931 wanted; his use case seems to be Java.

Actions #3

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
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