Re: UTF-8 and Kermit

From: Mark Davis (mark_davis@taligent.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 1997 - 18:09:15 EDT


I believe that is incorrect. It is easy to generate a trailing byte of
0b10000000 = 0x80.

Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote:

> Frank da Cruz writes:
>
> > So if the host uses UTF-8 but I am using a VT320 (or emulator), or
> the host
> > uses ISO 2022 with C1 controls and my emulator is switched to UTF,
> there
> > will be trouble. But that's not so bad, since we must do this now
> anyway
> > prior to making connections to systems that don't use ISO 2022, or
> that use
> > PC code pages (etc) on the wire.
>
> UTF-8 leaves the C1 controls alone. So you can trust the encodings in
> C1
> space to mean what you expect it to mean.
>
> Keld





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