Re: utf-8 from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-09-10 (www-svg@w3.org from September 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:25:52 +0200
To: "Sigurd Lerstad" <sigler@bredband.no>
Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3f675013.967118693@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* 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.

Received on Wednesday, 10 September 2003 12:26:03 UTC