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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: unicode and wide_text_io
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:56:24 +0100
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On 2017-12-30 16:33, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Isn't that 0..2^7... Any byte with the MSB set is a multibyte code (and
> number of MSB bits set before a 0 bit indicates how many bytes).

Yes. Furthermore, the subsequent octets have MSB set. The reason for 
this "waste" is to allow bidirectional scanning of UTF-8 strings.

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