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| -rw-r--r-- | utf8.c | 3 |
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@@ -549,7 +549,8 @@ UTF8_CHECK_ONLY is also specified.) Very large code points (above 0x7FFF_FFFF) are considered more problematic than the others that are above the Unicode legal maximum. There are several -reasons, one of which is that the original UTF-8 specification never went above +reasons: they do not fit into a 32-bit word, are not representable on EBCDIC +platforms, and the original UTF-8 specification never went above this number (the current 0x10FFF limit was imposed later). The UTF-8 encoding on ASCII platforms for these large code points begins with a byte containing 0xFE or 0xFF. The UTF8_DISALLOW_FE_FF flag will cause them to be treated as |