Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs

["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

Simon> The disadvantage with UTF-8 is that you don't know where a code
Simon> value ends within the encoded data without knowledge of UTF-8,

[ed's note: this should be taken as an extension of Simon's point,
            not a counter-argument.  It seemed ambiguous w/o
            a disclaimer....  -JimC]

That isn't really a disadvantage, since you need knowledge of unicode
itself anyway:  not every unit fits in a single code point.  Combining
characters, variation selectors, et al all mean that even with utf32
there is no guarentee that you can split at any given int32, hense
the fact that utf8 cannot be split at any given int8 is irrelevant.

-JimC