[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#1824) charset discussion

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1824 >

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> AFAICT, Vasco (and Wikipedia) is wrong, however, thinking that UTF-8 is a
> maximum of 4 bytes long. It is a maximum of 6 bytes long. The reason for
> this is that UTF-8 "wastes" a number of bytes, so that in order to
> represent as many characters as UCS-4, it must use more potential bytes.
> See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt.

Well, I'm wrong. RFC2279 is obsoleted by RFC3629, which limits the range
of available characters, making the effective limit 4 instead of 6, as it
was in the previous version. Odd. Sorry, Vasco.

  - Per