Minor utf8 refactor

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/utf8.hh b/src/utf8.hh
index cdf6b50a..eaf82b6f 100644
--- a/src/utf8.hh
+++ b/src/utf8.hh
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ extern "C" {
 
 #include "d_size.h"
 
+/*
+ * Unicode replacement character U+FFFD
+ * "used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or otherwise
+ * unrepresentable in Unicode"
+ */
+const char utf8_replacement_char[] = "\xEF\xBF\xBD";
+
 uint_t a_Utf8_end_of_char(const char *str, uint_t i);
 uint_t a_Utf8_decode(const char*, const char* end, int* len);
 int a_Utf8_encode(unsigned int ucs, char *buf);