From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 16:02:48 EST
Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
> Same thing for JIS x0208 (a TWO and only TWO bytes character set, not a
> variable length character set). If I am processing a ISO-2022-JP message
> and in the JIS x0208 mode and I got a 0x24 0xa8 I know the boundary of
> that problem is 16 bits, not 8 -bits nor 32 bits.
Not true. You don't know if
- a byte was dropped before or after 0x24
-> the first sequence is only 1 byte
- a byte was corrupted to become 0xa8
-> the sequence consists of two bytes
- a wild combination of multiple errors
With a single-unit encoding, you can always assume that an illegal unit is a one-unit error. With
any multi-unit encoding, you can only guess.
markus
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