Re: [dev] [st] wide characters

From: Strake <strake888_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:16:02 -0500

On 15/04/2013, random832_AT_fastmail.us <random832_AT_fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013, at 10:58, Martti Kühne wrote:
>> According to a quick google those chars can become as wide as 6
>> bytes,
>
> No, they can't. I have no idea what your source on this is.

In UTF-8 the maximum encoded character length is 6 bytes [1]

[1] Linux docs: man 7 utf-8

This is more than a four-byte integer ('‿')
Received on Mon Apr 15 2013 - 21:16:02 CEST