site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:39:25 -0500 Clark Cox <clarkcox3@gmail.com> wrote:

Actually, you will *never* see UTF-8 with more than 4 octets per codepoint. Period. That is the way that UTF-8 is defined. If you see a 5 or 6 octet character, then you are not reading UTF-8 data.

This is incorrect. Please read the first sentence in section 2 of RFC 2279: 2. UTF-8 definition In UTF-8, characters are encoded using sequences of 1 to 6 octets. Mike [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt -- IRC - where men are men, women are men, and the boys are FBI agents. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com