Re: Surrogate pairs and UTF-8

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 04:18:50 CDT

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    Peter Constable schrieb:
    > UTF-16 Surrogate Pairs are basically doing the same
    > thing that multi-byte sequences in UTF-8 do
    ...
    > They mainly differ only in details.

    One essential detail being that UTF-16 surrogates are excluded
    from the valid Unicode codepoints, while UTF-8 "surrogates"
    have binary values that are also valid Unicode codepoints.

    Best wishes,
       Otto Stolz

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