Re: Changes in the validation of UTF-8

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2019-03-18 9:49 a.m., Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > I noticed the new commit that adds support for longer (deprecated in
> > 2003) utf8 sequences:
> > https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/1e0c73d5b643707335b06abd2546a83d9439d14c
> >
> > I'm curious why this changed? It seems like a backwards step to me.
> Why is rejecting surrogates a backwards step? Did you (or anyone else
> in this discussion) bother reading the new documentation?
>
> -- Roberto

Thank you for this change, for I can now use utf8 as a 31-bit varint 
library.