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.\"	@(#)utf2.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/utf8.5,v 1.1.2.1 2002/10/24 11:00:52 tjr Exp $
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.Dd October 10, 2002
.Dt UTF8 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm utf8
.Nd "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm ENCODING
.Qq UTF-8
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm UTF-8
encoding represents UCS-4 characters as a sequence of octets, using
between 1 and 6 for each character.
It is backwards compatible with
.Tn ASCII ,
so 0x00-0x7f refer to the
.Tn ASCII
character set.
The multibyte encoding of non-
.Tn ASCII
characters
consist entirely of bytes whose high order bit is set.
The actual
encoding is represented by the following table:
.Bd -literal
[0x00000000 - 0x0000007f] [00000000.0bbbbbbb] -> 0bbbbbbb
[0x00000080 - 0x000007ff] [00000bbb.bbbbbbbb] -> 110bbbbb, 10bbbbbb
[0x00000800 - 0x0000ffff] [bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	1110bbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb
[0x00010000 - 0x001fffff] [00000000.000bbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	11110bbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb
[0x00200000 - 0x03ffffff] [000000bb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	111110bb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb
[0x04000000 - 0x7fffffff] [0bbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	1111110b, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb
.Ed
.Pp
If more than a single representation of a value exists (for example,
0x00; 0xC0 0x80; 0xE0 0x80 0x80) the shortest representation is always
used.
Longer ones are detected as an error as they pose a potential
security risk, and destroy the 1:1 character:octet sequence mapping.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The
.Nm
encoding supersedes the
.Xr utf2 5
encoding.
The only differences between the two are that
.Nm
handles the full 31-bit character set of
.Tn ISO
10646
whereas
.Xr utf2 5
is limited to a 16-bit character set,
and that
.Xr utf2 5
accepts redundant, non-"shortest form" representations of characters.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr euc 5 ,
.Xr utf2 5
.Rs
.%A "F. Yergeau"
.%T "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646"
.%O "RFC 2279"
.%D "January 1998"
.Re
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
encoding is compatible with RFC 2279.