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@aschmitz the other best‐practice with noncharacters is to never store them in a place where anyone other than the program which understands their meaning will see them

having the noncharacters produce XML which isn’t valid provides a bit of a guarantee against that; a downstream recipient SHOULD error out if it receives a document where the noncharacter wasn’t handled/removed

@aschmitz usually the best‐practice as i understand it when using noncharacters (which FFFE and FFFF are) is to first search for them in the string and replace any existing ones with FFFD

this would need to happen to make the XML valid anyway, so that seems acceptable to me; i agree that in the general case you probably shouldn’t assume valid input tho

@aschmitz (well, do not use U+FFFE in a UTF‐16 environment where it might be confused for a byte‐swapped U+FEFF)

@aschmitz U+FFFC is allowed in XML documents; i need a character which is NOT allowed in XML documents but which is still a valid Unicode character

there are three of these: U+0000 (not ideal), U+FFFE, and U+FFFF (both of these last two are great)

U+FFFF is a VALID UNICODE CHARACTER and i WILL use it as a delimiting sigil when processing strings which are restricted to the Char production!!

trying to negotiate dual feelings of “ugh why are you listening to this bourgeois thinkfluencer and not real organizations of real labourers” and “actually, this person owns approximately zero of the necessary means for any of their labours”

i’m thinking of like, professional speakers and high⹀end consultants here, to be clear; professions where social pressures demand bourgeois hires despite it not actually being a bourgeois role

is there a name for the kinds of people that capitalist society props up with a bourgeois lifestyle even tho, analysing their relationship to labour, they are not actually bourgeois?

niantic please never do this

niantic release a “pikachu with gender-changing cardboard taped to its tail” event pokémon you cowards

@aschmitz disney might try to claim reputation damages, e·g if the thing makes them look bad or the reproduction is of poor quality, and i don’t know but would guess those are valid things a court might take into consideration (but also things which probably don’t apply if nobody knows who the copyright holder of the work is)

@aschmitz (you can make this argument because the people who read braille mostly aren’t the market demographic for non-braille books)

@aschmitz it does depend on what a copyright holder is doing tho. a key component of fair use is whether it is infringing on profits of the copyright holder, so, for example, as i understand it, printing a braille version of a text or making an audiobook for blind readers is fair use if the copyright holder isn't producing one of their own, but isn't fair use if they are. the same logic probably applies to nonprofit translations, altho i'm not familiar with the case law