Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte? (was: Re: utf)
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 03:44:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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> That said, it is always safe to break valid "modified UTF-8" into
> records using zeroes, as long as you don't expect the result to be valid
> UTF-8 (it isn't valid UTF-8 because NULs will be encoded using a
> non-minimal byte sequence that *will* decode to a zero even if it is
> invalid) or valid modified UTF-8 (it isn't valid modified UTF-8 because
> 0 is not valid as an encoding for NUL in modified UTF-8). But a lax
> UTF-8 or modified UTF-8 *would* parse "modified UTF-8 with zero as
> record separators" and reconstruct the unicode text properly (but it
> would read the record separators as NULs, so you'd get extra NULs in the
> resulting text).
You are a nasty guy, aren't you ;-)
Pretty cunning...
Cheers
- -- t
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