Re: utf-8

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:02:00 +0200
• To: "Sigurd Lerstad" <sigler@bredband.no>
• Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <3f3aea73.362859975@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Sigurd Lerstad wrote:
>In an XML file that says utf-8 in the xml declaration. There could be 4 byte
>characters later in the file. How should those be treated to convert them to
>utf-16?

Just like any other sequence. U+10000 is F0 90 80 80 in UTF-8 and
D8 00 DC 00 or 00 D8 00 DC (depending on byte order) in UTF-16.

>Is there some spec which says what to do?

Unicode.

Received on Saturday, 26 July 2003 17:02:17 UTC