On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM Addison Phillips <addisoni18n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
#1983: Replacement character examples
replacing problematic code points, ideally with "�" (U+FFFD,
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER), although some popular software platforms,
notably Java, use "?".This is probably incorrect. Java replaces with U+FFFD in most Unicode processing (including decoding from legacy encodings). (Encoding to legacy encodings in Java use "?"). There are other places, such as certain browsers, where "?" is used in a Unicode context.
Apologies if I am misinterpreting, but I was surprised to learn that Java does use "?" sometimes. See this example:
thanks,
Rob
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