It isn't. MIDI variable-length quantities don't include an indication of length in a header, and the last byte in any multi-byte sequence is a valid single-byte value. It is more bit efficient than UTF-8, but I believe it lacks other properties around synchronization, possibly others.
I'm less sure here, but I believe the MIDI version is more similar to the thing the X/Open folks were considering before UTF-8 supplanted it. > On Feb 7, 2016, at 20:09, Bruce Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes. But the midi version is utf-8. > > brucee > >> On 7 February 2016 at 16:42, Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> but following that line of reasoning, aren't they all specialized versions >> of Huffman encoding? >> >> >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 6:04 PM Bruce Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Not to burst a balloon but check out variable length ints in the Midi File >>> Format for utf-8 in the early 80s. >>> >>> brucee >
