Re: Do the CR & LF bytes in UTF-8 ONLY exist in this form?

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Hi alopecoid,

> can the byte values for the ASCII characters appear by chance as the bytes in
the 2nd to 4th positions of other UTF-8 characters?

No. Only 0x80 - 0xBF appear in the 2nd to 4th positions.

> Is it safe to assume that if I encounter a CR (carriage return, '\r') byte or
a LF (line feed, '\n') byte, that this byte belongs to it's own single byte
character value?

Yes.

> Or can the 8-bits that make up a CR or LF byte just happen to exist in another
multi-byte character as bytes 2 through 4 of that character?

No.

All "trailing" UTF-8 encoding units have the bit pattern 10xxxxxx, so they
will always be between 0x80 - 0xBF, safely avoiding '\n' (0x0A) and '\r'
(0x0D).

> I hope my question is clear.

Yes.

> Thank you.

You're welcome.

Sincerely,
--Eljay

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