DO YOU WANT STATE?
UTF-8 doesn't have state. It has multibyte sequences. Lern 2... lern 2 lern.
DO YOU WANT MULTIPLE WAYS TO EXPRESS THE SAME CHARACTER?
There's only one way to express one character; needlessly long chains are to be considered illegal.
>>28
Which are not the same as the precombined character.
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Anonymous2007-11-15 5:23
>>44
Unicode does have state. For example, whether the current text should be right-to-left or left-to-right rendered, based on previous override characters. Or using combining characters to build up a full one.
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Anonymous2007-11-15 6:18
>>45
True, but the UTF-8 character encoding does not have encoding state itself.
needlessly long chains are to be considered illegal.
So composing a character with an accent from two codepoints is illegal when a codepoint that already combines the two is available? Sure thing, Anonymous.
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Anonymous2007-11-15 14:03
>>50
You are confusing layers. We're talking about UTF-8 representation of a Unicode character, not how to combine characters to form identical glyphs.
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Anonymous2007-11-15 14:20
>>51
Then just tell me, what is a "needlessly long chain" in UTF-8.
The government walks over to e to also leave and go elsewhere and form their own and that their text is correct it would be to have an article with this too I feel like such a horrible inconsistent browser.