Re: utf-8

• From: Sigurd Lerstad <sigler@bredband.no>
• Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:20:13 +0200
• To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <006201c353b3$524c7660$6e1273d5@mmstudio>

I don't understand what you mean.

In an XML file that says utf-8 in the xml declaration. There could be 4 byte
characters later in the file. How should those be treated to convert them to
utf-16?

Is there some spec which says what to do?

Am I missing something?

thanks,

--
Sigurd Lerstad

> * Sigurd Lerstad wrote:
> >DOM is always 2 bytes, what happens in an utf-8 file when you encounter a
> >character that uses 4 bytes (UCS-4), just ignore the two last bytes?
>
> Characters > U+FFFF are encoded using surrogate characters in UTF-16.
>

Received on Saturday, 26 July 2003 16:18:21 UTC