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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-27 19:06:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-27 19:06:39 +0000 |
| commit | 8c007b5a50b3b203d888850956b2075ebfd49ce5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2560db8cd912a4a93322711e666da1ed5a1b0c9a /pod | |
| parent | c99da3702f996b1fc1415a829383240bdf2f0fd2 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8c007b5a50b3b203d888850956b2075ebfd49ce5.tar.gz | |
Update the UTF-8 explanation table.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14900
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlunicode.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index 7fb473ebe5..7ea87141f0 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -700,18 +700,23 @@ UTF-8 is a variable-length (1 to 6 bytes, current character allocations require 4 bytes), byteorder independent encoding. For ASCII, UTF-8 is transparent (and we really do mean 7-bit ASCII, not another 8-bit encoding). -The following table is from Unicode 3.1. +The following table is from Unicode 3.2. Code Points 1st Byte 2nd Byte 3rd Byte 4th Byte - U+0000..U+007F 00..7F - U+0080..U+07FF C2..DF 80..BF + U+0000..U+007F 00..7F + U+0080..U+07FF C2..DF 80..BF U+0800..U+0FFF E0 A0..BF 80..BF - U+1000..U+FFFF E1..EF 80..BF 80..BF + U+1000..U+CFFF E1..EC 80..BF 80..BF + U+D000..U+D7FF ED 80..9F 80..BF + U+D800..U+DFFF ******* ill-formed ******* + U+E000..U+FFFF EE..EF 80..BF 80..BF U+10000..U+3FFFF F0 90..BF 80..BF 80..BF U+40000..U+FFFFF F1..F3 80..BF 80..BF 80..BF U+100000..U+10FFFF F4 80..8F 80..BF 80..BF +Note the A0..BF in U+0800..U+0FFF, the 80..9F in U+D000...U+D7FF, +the 90..BF in U+10000..U+3FFFF, and the 80...8F in U+100000..U+10FFFF. Or, another way to look at it, as bits: Code Points 1st Byte 2nd Byte 3rd Byte 4th Byte @@ -722,7 +727,7 @@ Or, another way to look at it, as bits: 00000dddccccccbbbbbbaaaaaa 11110ddd 10cccccc 10bbbbbb 10aaaaaa As you can see, the continuation bytes all begin with C<10>, and the -leading bits of the start byte tells how many bytes the are in the +leading bits of the start byte tell how many bytes the are in the encoded character. =item |