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Re: UTF-8 in gas
- To: ian at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 in gas
- From: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 08:33:12 +0100
- CC: eggert at twinsun dot com, bug-gnu-utils at gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gnu dot org, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com, hjl at gnu dot org
- References: <199811030033.TAA00610@subrogation.cygnus.com>
> I don't know UTF-8, but since the patch appears to require that all
> character values in a UTF-8 string be above 127, I think it might as
> well accept any characters above 127.
That's fine with me. UTF-8 indeed requires all characters above
127. The first byte (which will be 11xx xxxx) indicates how bytes
follow; the following bytes will all be 10xx xxxx.
Thanks for your quick response.
Martin