From: Michael Enright <mike@kmcardiff.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: UTF-8 character encoding
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 07:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOC2fq-OZE1DvG_p1tcVpfJHD3x2rg2nmiY1ox8mAoVSEM3S7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWsuevQX6fBUzkEvUs5rBPehhG7-ht+FPZU=eOaACF5uCPg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still trying to figure utf-8 out, but it seems to me that 0x0 -
> 0xff is part of the utf-8 encoding.
I don't see how you arrived at this. An initial byte of 0xFF is not
the initial byte of any valid UTF-8 byte sequence. And it doesn't
conform with the statement you have later:
> An easy way to remember this transformation format is to note that the
> number of high-order 1's in the first byte is the same as the number of
> subsequent bytes in the multibyte character:
This is true, but there is also a zero bit that ends the
high-order-1's bit string, which means that 0xFF is not a valid lead
byte. 0x7F is the highest byte value that you can have as a
single-byte UTF8 string.
Perhaps your statement about 0-0xFF was meant to be read differently.
Thomas Wolff's note seems to be objecting to the inclusion of
characters above U+10FFFF which isn't legal UTF-8, but was in the
original proposal. Otherwise your table rows 1-4 is correct.
The standards such as IETF RFC-3629 are easy enough to read, so I
recommend using them and citing them to others instead of trying to
summarize.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-26 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-21 7:20 Lee
2018-06-21 10:12 ` Stefan Weil
2018-06-21 10:39 ` Andrey Repin
2018-06-22 7:31 ` Lee
2018-06-22 17:30 ` Andrey Repin
2018-06-25 9:56 ` L A Walsh
2018-06-25 20:52 ` Lee
2018-06-26 21:39 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-06-27 9:31 ` Lee
2018-06-27 7:50 ` Michael Enright [this message]
2018-06-27 9:34 ` Lee
2018-06-21 18:49 ` Houder
2018-06-21 20:46 ` Houder
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