CESU-8 - Revision history

Dan Tobias at 02:35, 21 May 2019

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Dan Tobias at 15:37, 19 May 2019

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Jsummers at 22:02, 4 March 2016

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'''CESU-8''' is an inefficient [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] related to [[UTF-8]]. It is not an accepted standard, but has been documented in the interest of practicality.

It's what you get if you take [[UTF-16]] data, reinterpret it as [[UCS-2]], then convert it to UTF-8 (while ignoring any rules forbidding the use of code points in the range U+D800 to U+DFFF). A code point thus uses 1, 2, 3, or 6 bytes.

It is sometimes used by accident, but may be used deliberately to accommodate systems that don't support 4-byte UTF-8 sequences, or when a close correspondence between UTF-16 and a UTF-8-like encoding is deemed necessary.

== References ==
* [http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/ Unicode Technical Report #26]

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 '''CESU-8''' is an inefficient [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] related to [[UTF-8]]. It is not an accepted standard, but has been documented in the interest of practicality.