- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:15:50 -0800
- To: Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, mranney@voxer.com, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, thanks for this post. > Mark Davis ☕ wrote: >> >> UTF-8 represents a code point as 1-4 8-bit code units > > "1-6". ... > Lock up your encoders, I am so not a Unicode guru but this is what my > reptile coder brain remembers. Only theoretically. UTF-8 has been locked down to the same range that UTF-16 has (RFC 3629), so the largest real character you'll see is 4 bytes, as that gives you exactly 21 bits of data. ~TJ
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