On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:36:10 +0400
Alexey Proskuryakov <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Each character may occupy between 1 and 6 bytes [1].
>
> More precisely, between 1 and 4:
> <http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#30>.
At risk of being pedantic this is just talking about how to convert a
UTF-16 character into a UTF-8 one. Because UTF-16 with a surrogate can
only represent 21 bits of the Unicode code space only 4 bytes is necessary
to encode any character in UTF-8. But UTF-8 can encode the full 31 bit
code space which needs at most 6 bytes to be represented in UTF-8. But
unless you're doing Klingon you'll never actually see more than 4.
Mike
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