Hi,
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
quoted
BTW, utf-8 was designed on purpose to be easily distinguishable from
other encodings so that you don't have to rely on every document
obeying a certain encoding.
No, it wasn't. It was designated on purpose to be ASCII-compatible,
substring-safe, and minimally stateful.
For the record, my information stems from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8#Rationale_behind_UTF-8.27s_mechanics
Hth,
Dscho