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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: Newby neds help
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> 
>> Therefore I've written "several hundrets" (should have been "hundreds",
>> of course).  However, AFAIK a UTF-8 encoded string will be URI-encoded
>> octet-wise,
> 
> If you mean by this that the code point of each character is determined,
> then the code point’s UTF-8 code sequence is calculated, and then each 
> octet’s hexadecimal (uppercased) string representation is preceded by ”%”, 
> then you are correct.

Yes, that is what I meant.  Thanks for the clarification. :)

>> so a single code point could occupy up to 12 characters in the URI, what 
>> would only be sufficient for roughly 150 such code points.
> 
> Yes, up to 4 UTF-8 code units per code sequence are specified in the current  
> “Unicode Standard, Version 7.0” [1].  Hence “*at least* 6”.

ACK.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker