On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > What will these restrictions be? Big changes?
>
> Well, UTF-8 will be made simpler. Currently, Unicode-conformant UTF-8
> decoders should accept 'irregular' UTF-8 (which is codepoint coded as
> UTF-16, and then reencoded as UTF-8). With the change, there will be no
> need for that anymore, and the decoder will be allowed to reject
> irregulars, or even forget about their existance.
The ISO 10646-1:2000 definition of UTF-8 had that already. Unicode is just
getting better aligned with the ISO standard here.
Markus
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