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Re: RFC 2279 (UTF-8) to Full Standard

From: Tony Hansen <tony@att.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:12:23 -0400
To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Message-id: <3CB6F957.6030209@att.com>
One of the advantages about UTF8 that I've repeatedly heard touted was 
that it was NOT restricted to 10FFFF, and indeed could handle the entire 
32-bit codespace when such codes were eventually allocated. This was 
often used as an argument against other encodings, such as UTF16, that 
didn't have the same property.

	Tony Hansen
	tony@att.com

Mark Davis wrote:

> Yes, they have; and it is quoted in the UTF-32 TR. Moreover, it is of
> course safest if the RFC UTF-8 is restricted to 10FFFF, since any
> higher values will not convert to UTF-16, and could even cause
> security problems if converted incorrectly (e.g. overlaying legitimate
> codes).
Received on Friday, 12 April 2002 11:15:50 GMT

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