Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.programmer
Subject	Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings
Date	2021-12-20 10:56 -0800
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Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> writes:
> John McCue , dans le message <splvjm$msm$1@dont-email.me>, a écrit :
>> I saw somewhere 5 and 6 byte sequences were originally
>> defined or thought it would be needed, but now limited
>> to 4 bytes.
>
> Unicode was limited to 20-21 bits because Microsoft and Sun decided to use
> UTF-16 to go beyond 16 bits instead of making their ABI evolve with regard
> to sizeof(wchar_t) or equivalent.

I don't see how that follows.  UTF-16, at least in its current form, can
represent all 1,112,064 valid Unicode code points.

Sun used UTF-16 for Java.  UTF-16, as far as I know, was rare on Solaris.

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UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-17 22:55 +0000
  Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-18 00:04 +0000
    Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-18 17:15 +0000
      Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-18 23:14 +0000
        Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-19 21:39 +0000
          Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-19 21:53 +0000
          Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-20 03:57 +0000
            Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-20 18:28 +0000
              Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-20 19:30 +0000
              Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-20 20:46 +0000
                Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-20 21:24 +0000
          Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> - 2021-12-20 13:34 +0000
  Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-17 16:37 -0800
    Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-18 17:19 +0000
      Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings John McCue <jmccue@fuzzball.mhome.org> - 2021-12-19 00:49 +0000
        Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> - 2021-12-20 09:42 +0000
          Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-20 10:56 -0800

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