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On 2017-12-30 16:33, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> codepoint between
>> 1     -> 2**8  -1 = 1 byte
> 	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).
> 
>> 2**8  -> 2**16 -1 = 2 bytes
>> 2**16 -> 2**24 -1 = 3 bytes
>> 2**24 -> 2**32 -1 = 4 bytes

You are probably right,
I meant to point out the principle.
That UTF-8 can be more that 2 bytes.
That it expands as needed up to 4 bytes.

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