From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:38:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511210937500.3931@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4380C03B.9090603@zytor.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > BTW, utf-8 was designed on purpose to be easily distinguishable from 
> > other encodings so that you don't have to rely on every document 
> > obeying a certain encoding.
> > 
> 
> No, it wasn't.  It was designated on purpose to be ASCII-compatible,
> substring-safe, and minimally stateful.

For the record, my information stems from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8#Rationale_behind_UTF-8.27s_mechanics

Hth,
Dscho