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Doug Ewell wrote:
Markus Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In UTF-7, byte sequences overlap and many bytes in the encoding
(2 out of 8 I think) contain pieces of two adjacent code units.
This is more like in Huffman codes.
This is one reason why I'm a
On 2002-apr-09, Shlomi Tal and Doug Ewell discussed on this list a UTF-7 signature
byte sequence of +/v8- (which was news to me).
(Subject MS/Unix BOM FAQ again (small fix))
I meditated some over this -
+/v8 is the encoding of U+FEFF as the first code point in a text. So far, so good
Shlomi Tal wrote:
UTF-7, it shocked me how Greek Sokrates and S o k r a t e s (with
spaces between each Greek letter in the latter) would have different
encodings for the same Unicode characters.
That is not unusual for stateful encodings.
It's the same with BOCU-1 (not in this particular
Markus Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2002-apr-09, Shlomi Tal and Doug Ewell discussed on this list
a UTF-7 signature byte sequence of +/v8- (which was news to me).
I don't remember ever reading a recommendation, or even a suggestion, to
use +/v8- as a signature for UTF-7
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