From: Peter Olcott on 2 Jun 2010 17:29 On 6/2/2010 2:15 PM, Jerry Coffin wrote: > In article<O9adnQhj079gmp3RnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, > NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com says... > > [ ... ] > >> If I generate every possible valid CodePoint and translate to and >> from UTF-8 and get the same value that I send in back out this will >> prove with very high reliability that both functions are correct. > > It will prove only that their bugs cancel each other out. If (for > example) you have a problem from misunderstanding the standard, it's > often pretty easy to write code with matching bugs. > It turned out that this did work, because it also validated against another UTF-8 decoder. |