Rainer: > I am still tempted to allow only octets in the range of 1..255. ;)
I think at least technically this restriction is possible because 0x00 never appears as part of any characters encoded as multi-octet characters in UTF-8. See table here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8 However, I don't know if restricting this bit sequence is necessary. What do other UTF-8 based protocols do? Anton.
