Re: [ISSUE] UTF-8 CRLF

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:03:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> * David Shaw:
> 
> > The last sentence of section 5.9 reads:
> >
> >   Text data is stored with <CR><LF> text endings (i.e. network-normal
> >   line endings).  These should be converted to native line endings by
> >   the receiving software.
> >
> > Suggest to add:
> >
> >   For the 'u' UTF8 literal packet, the minimal UTF8 encoding for the
> >   <CR><LF> line endings SHOULD be used.  That is, 0x0D 0x0A and not
> >   0xC0 0x8D 0xC0 0x8A or other multibyte encodings.
> 
> This isn't valid UTF-8.  A UTF-8 implementation MUST NOT decode these
> octets, but MUST flag an error.  The most recent UTF-8 RFC is quite
> explicit in this regard.

My mistake.  I had missed that change.  I withdraw the suggestion.

David