- From: Yung-Fong Tang <ftang@netscape.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 13:36:39 -0700
- To: Saba Sundaramurthy <ssundaramurthy@verisign.com>
- CC: "'Robert A. Rosenberg'" <rarpsl@flashcom.net>, mozilla-i18n@mozilla.org, www-international@w3.org, i18n-prog@acoin.com
Saba Sundaramurthy wrote: > UTF-8 characters may expand to any number of bytes (up to 6 for > UCS-4), I don't think byte order is important since the sequence will be > written out one byte at a time in the correct order. > > As confirmed by Michka, the BOM is placed in UTF-8 files only as a > 'magic cookie'. That mean 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF as the first 3 bytes in a text file mean a UTF-8 file on Win2K, right ? > > > Saba > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert A. Rosenberg [mailto:rarpsl@flashcom.net] > > At 10:43 AM 05/10/2000 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: > > >This is all fine and well for UTF-16, but what about UTF-8 ? > > why does the > > >byte order matter? > > > > The byte-order is still important since it controls what > > UTF-8 codes get > > emitted for the same input codepoint. Just as you need to > > know which order > > to save the two bytes of a UTF-16 character, you need to know > > what order to > > assemble the two bytes that get created by expanding a UTF-8 sequence. > >
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