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RFC 2279 says: "In UTF-8, characters are encoded using sequences of 1 to 6 octets." That's not technically a standard, but it was widely implemented.
by bloak 7y ago
RFC 2279 says: "In UTF-8, characters are encoded using sequences of 1 to 6 octets." That's not technically a standard, but it was widely implemented.
- mark-r 7y agoUTF-8 was originally designed to handle codepoints up to a full 32 bits. It wasn't until later that the codepoint range was restricted so that 4 octets would be sufficient.