2012/12/16 Otto Stolz <[email protected]> > > The reason I excluded the surrogates from my UTF-8 MPE > was really that I needed additional space for the user’s > guide on the reverse side. >
Why adding a row in the front side would have not preserved the space for the reverse side ? If this is regarded as didactic tool, addin this row would have focused more on the validity constraint of UTF-8, enforced in TUS and now as well in the IETF RFC made by ISO to be fully compatible with TUS. I think that the row was missing only because your MPE was initially designed for the old UTF-8 definition in the now obsolete ISO definition where the validity constraint was not clear (it was not clear as well on past variations of UTF-8 that are still existing in Java (not really for plain-text interchange but for the 8-native JNI API compatible with 8-bit C strings, and as part of the serialization format of compiled Java classes). Add this missing row, Everything in the reverse side can remain the same (or can be using a less "cryptic" compact description of how it works).
