Re: Encoding conversions

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx>]

Carl W. Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> If they validate UTF-8 (xiua_ValidateStr) it will check each character to be
> a valid UTF-8 initial character followed by the proper number of
> continuation characters if any.  It will make sure that it is not a
> surrogate character nor a reversed BOM nor exceed the Unicode 3.1 character
> range.

Note also that "\xe0\x84\x80" is illegal, for example, as U+0100
should be represented only by "\xc4\x80".

Perhaps you want to exclude U+FFFF, too.

Edmund
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