Re: First strawman for UTF-8 headers proposal

Keith Moore <[email protected]> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:05:56 -0500

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On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote:

> Well, UTF-8 is made so that all characters in the 7-bit ASCII range
>  have the same codes as in ASCII, so if your grammar only has ASCII
> meta-characters, then you can parse the UTF string as ASCII.

no you can't, because none of the octets in a multiple-octet utf-8=20
character are valid components of an atom.