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Author	lemburg
Recipients	dangra, ezio.melotti, lemburg, sjmachin
Date	2010-04-01.13:19:03
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Message-id	<4BB49D46.7010209@egenix.com>
In-reply-to	<1270123022.09.0.351284182872.issue8271@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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John Machin wrote: > > John Machin <sjmachin@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: > > Unicode has been frozen at 0x10FFFF. That's it. There is no such thing as a valid 5-byte or 6-byte UTF-8 string. The UTF-8 codec was written at a time when UTF-8 still included the possibility to have 5 or 6 bytes: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt Use of those encodings has always raised an error, though. For error handling purposes it still has to support those possibilities.

John Machin wrote:
> 
> John Machin <sjmachin@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
> 
> Unicode has been frozen at 0x10FFFF. That's it. There is no such thing as a valid 5-byte or 6-byte UTF-8 string.

The UTF-8 codec was written at a time when UTF-8 still included
the possibility to have 5 or 6 bytes:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt

Use of those encodings has always raised an error, though. For error
handling purposes it still has to support those possibilities.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-04-01 13:19:05	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, sjmachin, ezio.melotti, dangra
2010-04-01 13:19:04	lemburg	link	issue8271 messages
2010-04-01 13:19:03	lemburg	create