Unicode utf-8 doesn't do back-and-forth?

Martin v. Löwis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Tue Jul 2 07:52:48 EDT 2002


"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> writes:

> Well, that answers that question, I suppose. No clue what a surrogate
> is for, but I suppose there's no point including them in a
> character-classes set if they're designed specifically as unicode
> internal chars.

Correct. For a definition of surrogates and UTF-16, see

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt

Regards,
Martin



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