Re: please review the paper for me

2003-02-26 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
I think that is a very commn mistake people WILL make. Doug Ewell wrote: Thanks to all who pointed out that noncharacters, unlike surrogate code points, are NOT illegal or invalid in UTF-8 or any other CES. I don't know why I said they were. (Bad brain! Bad, bad brain!) -Doug Ewell Fullerton,

Re: please review the paper for me

2003-02-26 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Frank Tang wrote: I think that is a very commn mistake people WILL make. Especially if they keep telling each other the wrong thing, and then rely on folklore about the standard as their source of information. The ultimate source of information about a standard is the standard itself. If

Re: please review the paper for me

2003-02-25 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
Doug Ewell wrote: Yung-Fong Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on serveral project which need to validate UTF-8 text. Some people outside my company also ask me to update the UTF-8 validation code to reflect the changes introduced in Unicode 3.1 and 3.2. I am

Re: please review the paper for me

2003-02-25 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
ok, I find some problem and rewirte a little bit. Here is the rev 0.4 . Please give me your comment. Title: The Algorithm to Valide an UTF-8 String The Algorithm to Validate an UTF-8 String Frank Yung-Fong Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Draft: 0.4 Status of this document: DRAFT.

RE: please review the paper for me

2003-02-25 Thread Francois Yergeau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunatelly, FSS-UTF in Unicode 1.1 IS NOT UTF-8. Most of the people refer to UTF-8 by looking at RFC 2279 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2279.htmland RFC 2044 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2044.htmlbut in that two RFCs, when

please review the paper for me

2003-02-24 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
Folks: I am working on serveral project which need to validate UTF-8 text. Some people outside my company also ask me to update the UTF-8 validation code to reflect the changes introduced in Unicode 3.1 and 3.2. It will be nice if some of you could review this paper for me. I plan to use it

Re: please review the paper for me

2003-02-24 Thread Doug Ewell
Yung-Fong Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on serveral project which need to validate UTF-8 text. Some people outside my company also ask me to update the UTF-8 validation code to reflect the changes introduced in Unicode 3.1 and 3.2. I am still puzzled by claims that there have