There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

re: There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

Michael — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:43:59 GMT

The evil like Char.IsSurrogate comes from the fact that Char managed type, as well as wchar_t (under Windows) really represent just two bytes in Utf16 encoding, not the Unicode character. I always mentally translate it, and then Utf16CodePoint.IsSurrogate does makes sense :)

re: There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:13:54 GMT

Well, that is the slightly more benign use (IMHO) -- both types are defined for MS platforms as using UTF-16, an it is just asking if the thing in the Char or WCHAR is a surrogate....

re: There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

Ben Bryant — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:37:25 GMT

Well put. I'll try to always keep this in mind. But looking at XmlWriter WriteSurrogateCharEntity it seems to be named to be consistent with WriteCharEntity which I think is actually incorrect in the first place -- it is a "Numeric Character Reference", not an "Entity Reference" and certainly leaving off the term "Reference" or at least "Ref" is bad usage; it should be WriteCharRef and WriteSupplementaryCharRef for use with UTF-16. They also have WriteEntityRef which is actually an "Entity Reference," so they apparently thought leaving the "Ref" part off would make it a Numeric Character Reference! This whole API shows a real confusion in terms, in particular a craziness around the term "Entity." Dare Obasanjo oversaw this right? He should explain it. But coming back to your point, the Char in the method name may be intending to refer to the output (which is actually a supplementary character) and not the surrogate pair that is input judging from the correlation with WriteCharEntity.

Why my syndication links were broken....

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:47:34 GMT

The other day I complained about how My syndication links are broken.
We can blame it all on surrogates!...

Maybe there is such a thing as a surrogateS character (dammit!)

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:25:58 GMT

(No, the title of this post does not contain a typo!)
I have a regular reader of this blog who is a...

If it ain't UTF-16 then it ain't having no surrogate pairs, baby!

Sorting It All Out — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:32:09 GMT

The other day, Ramanathan asked: Hi, I have the following surrogate character 𠄃 that can be encoded

If you would wait till I FINISHED what I was trying to say, you punk... (aka Premature validation)

Sorting It All Out — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:17:58 GMT

This may have happened to you before. Sometimes I am trying to have a conversation with someone. And

I'm simply saying that life^H^H^H^Hcharacters, uh... find a way

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:13:29 GMT

Regular reader Jan Kučera asked in response to If you would wait till I *FINISHED* what I was trying

There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

re: There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

re: There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

re: There is no such thing as a surrogate character (dammit!)

Why my syndication links were broken....

Maybe there is such a thing as a surrogateS character (dammit!)

If it ain't UTF-16 then it ain't having no surrogate pairs, baby!

If you would wait till I *FINISHED* what I was trying to say, you punk... (aka Premature validation)

I'm simply saying that life^H^H^H^Hcharacters, uh... find a way

If you would wait till I FINISHED what I was trying to say, you punk... (aka Premature validation)