Carl,
You seem to be using the word "character" in some places where
you (probably) mean "byte", eg:
> All UTF-8 characters must be followed by the proper number of valid
> continuation characters, if any.
Misha
On 10/09/2001 18:21:48 Carl W. Brown wrote:
> I am checking out my UTF-8 validation rules to see if they are correct.
>
> Check each character to be a valid UTF-8 initial character.
>
> \x00 to \x7f or \xC2 to \xF4
>
> Allow invalid forms such as \xC0 & \xC1 to decode but consider them invalid.
>
> A first byte of \xE0 or \xF0 with a second byte less than \xA0 is also an
> invalid form.
>
> \xED followed by anything >= \xA0 is an encoded surrogate and not a valid
> character.
>
> \xEF\xBF\xBE and \xEF\xBF\xBF are invalid Unicode characters.
>
> Anything greater than \xF4\x80\xBF\xBF is beyond the Unicode range.
>
> All UTF-8 characters must be followed by the proper number of valid
> continuation characters, if any.
>
> Carl
>
>
>
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