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Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes: > At 12:40 PM 6/5/2001 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> (As an aside, UTF-8 also is not an X-byte encoding; UTF-8 is a variable >> byte encoding, with each character taking up anywhere from one to six >> bytes in the encoded form depending on where in Unicode the character >> falls.) > Have they changed that again? Last I checked, UTF-8 was capped at 4 > bytes, but that's in the Unicode 3.0 standard. Yes, it changed with Unicode 3.1 when they started allocating characters from higher planes. Far and away the best reference for UTF-8 that I've found is RFC 2279. It's much more concise and readable than the version in the Unicode standard, and is more aimed at implementors and practical considerations. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next