Re: UTF-12!

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2011 - 11:23:45 CST

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I wrote:

> Encouraging users to use the shortest form (like UTF-8) is not the
> same as syntactically not providing a non-shortest form (like UTF-16
> and -32).

Minor correction: the syntactic definition of UTF-8 does now exclude
byte combinations that would encode non-shortest forms, though of course
they are still obvious and easy to create.

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