UTF-8 character encoding
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Tue Jun 26 21:39:00 GMT 2018
Am 25.06.2018 um 20:33 schrieb Lee:
> On 6/24/18, L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org> wrote:
>> Lee wrote:
>>> So... keep it simple, set
>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>> and use vi or something else that comes with cygwin to create the file
>>> and I'll have a file with UTF-8 character encoding - correct?
>> ---
>> The first 127 characters of UTF-8 are identical to the
>> first 127 characters of ASCII, and latin1 and iso-8859-1.
>>
>> If you don't use any characters that need accents or special symbols,
>> then nothing will be encoded in UTF-8, because its only
>> the characters OVER the first 127
>> (see chart @ http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelmap.html).
> I'm still trying to figure utf-8 out, but it seems to me that 0x0 -
> 0xff is part of the utf-8 encoding. This chart makes things clearer
> ... at least for me :)
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
> The proposed UCS transformation format encodes UCS values in the range
> [0,0x7fffffff] using multibyte characters of lengths 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
> bytes. For all encodings of more than one byte, the initial byte
> determines the number of bytes used and the high-order bit in each byte
> is set.
>
> An easy way to remember this transformation format is to note that the
> number of high-order 1's in the first byte is the same as the number of
> subsequent bytes in the multibyte character:
>
> Bits Hex Min Hex Max Byte Sequence in Binary
> 1 7 00000000 0000007f 0zzzzzzz
> 2 13 00000080 0000207f 10zzzzzz 1yyyyyyy
> 3 19 00002080 0008207f 110zzzzz 1yyyyyyy 1xxxxxxx
> 4 25 00082080 0208207f 1110zzzz 1yyyyyyy 1xxxxxxx 1wwwwwww
> 5 31 02082080 7fffffff 11110zzz 1yyyyyyy 1xxxxxxx 1wwwwwww 1vvvvvvv
This encoding scheme is wrong; where did you get it from? Maybe it's the
obsolete UTF-8...
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