On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:46:01PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > For example, the unix "cut" program works automatically with UTF-8 > > text as long as the delimiter is a single byte, > > By "single byte," do you mean a character whose UTF-8 representation > is a single byte? (If you gave it the byte 0xBF, would it reject it > as an invalid UTF-8 sequence, or would it then possibly cut in the middle > of the byte sequence for a character (e.g., 0xEF 0xBF 0x00)?)
Apologies for omitting the word “character” after single byte. Yes, I meant ASCII. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
