Re: [Monotone-devel] line endings as project policy

[Ulf Ochsenfahrt]

Larry Hastings wrote:
> Ulf Ochsenfahrt wrote:
> > Yes, but UTF-8 is a _multi-byte_ encoding.
> > If you see an LF byte, you don't know whether this is a single-byte LF 
> > or part of a multi-byte sequence.
> Yes you do, because all multi-byte character sequences in UTF-8 have the 
> high-bit set.  If you see 0x0A in a UTF-8 stream you can be certain it 
> /is/ an LF and /not/ part of a multi-byte sequence.

I suspected that, which is why I put in the part about NON-8-bit 
encodings, which you conveniently cut out.

-- Ulf

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