Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> On Sep 13, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Arto Huusko wrote:
> 
>> No. One of the properties of UTF-8 is that all the octets in an
>> UTF-8 character that is encoded using multiple octets have their
>> highest bit set.
> 
> Ah, I didn't realize that *all* of the octets in such a sequence were 
> so encoded.

UTF-8 was originally called "file system safe UTF" for a reason ;)

SY, Uwe
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