Re: utf-8

* Sigurd Lerstad wrote:
>> >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?
>>
>> Just like any other sequence. U+10000 is F0 90 80 80 in UTF-8 and
>> D8 00 DC 00 or 00 D8 00 DC (depending on byte order) in UTF-16.

>Okay, I feel stupid, I've purchased the utf-8 spec from iso, and they
>explain how to convert from utf-8 to ucs4, I'm afraid we're talking past one
>another. My question is simply: How can 4 bytes be represented in 2 bytes,
>it can't be done. what am I missing?

That UTF-16 does not mean two bytes per character. As I've said,
characters above U+FFFF are represented using *four* bytes in UTF-16.