From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2008 - 14:33:03 CST
John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:
>> "It is worth noting that the telnet IAC character (an octet
>> consisting of all ones, i.e., %xFF) itself is not a problem for
>> UTF-8."
>
> I think what is meant is that Telnet protocol uses %xFF as the
> introducer to various commands, and therefore any %xFF in the byte
> stream must be escaped; however, this is not a problem for UTF-8 byte
> streams since they cannot contain %xFF.
Aha. That makes a lot more sense. It wasn't clear to me from context,
even when re-reading Appendix B in its (brief) entirety, but I might not
be part of the target audience that goes in with certain knowledge.
Mark Crispin <mrc at CAC dot Washington dot EDU> wrote:
> I strongly recommend that members of the UTC *NOT* go off half-cocked
> without first taking the time to perform the necessary background
> research (specifically, of the concepts of "network ASCII" and Telnet
> protocol) to understand this document.
For my part anyway, I had no such plan. The statement in the draft was
confusing to me, and that's why I couched my query in weaselly phrases
like "I wonder what that means" and "Maybe someone can help me out."
> These messages below show that some people here do not have a clue
> about the technical domain in which this document resides, and risk
> looking foolish if they do not first acquire that clue before
> commenting within that domain.
Good thing someone helped me out.
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