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| From | John McCue <jmccue@fuzzball.mhome.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.programmer |
| Subject | Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings |
| Date | 2021-12-19 00:49 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <splvjm$msm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
>> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> writes:
<snip>
>> Unicode only defines character values up to 0x10fffd, so there are no
>> valid encodings longer than 4 octets.
This is my understanding also.
<snip>
>
> The Linux UTF-8 man page also has 5 and 6 byte sequences.
I saw somewhere 5 and 6 byte sequences were originally
defined or thought it would be needed, but now limited
to 4 bytes.
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UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-17 22:55 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-18 00:04 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-18 17:15 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-18 23:14 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-19 21:39 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-19 21:53 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-20 03:57 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-20 18:28 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-20 19:30 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-20 20:46 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2021-12-20 21:24 +0000
Re: UTF-8 overlong encodings Nicolas George <nicolas$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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