Character Encoding
An Introduction |
Prof. David Bernstein |
Computer Science Department |
bernstdh@jmu.edu |
0
and the other bits
contain the value in the interval \([0, 127]\)1
s (which are
always followed by a 0
) in the first byte
indicates the number of octets used and each subsequent byte
begins with 10
(so they can be easily identified
as such)
Theoretical Byte Sequences
(Note: Some of the following sequences are not considered
well-formed in the specification.)
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