内容简介:This is just a brief note about something that I came to realise recently. I've been working a lot with UTF-8 byte streams, Unicode characters, and all that, and I've come to realise that writing them out in hexadecimal is completely wrong. It's a form of
Write out Unicode in Octal
This is just a brief note about something that I came to realise recently. I've been working a lot with UTF-8 byte streams, Unicode characters, and all that, and I've come to realise that writing them out in hexadecimal is completely wrong. It's a form of obfuscation.
I'll walk through an example, which should explain very quickly why I feel we should be using octal. Take the Unicode codepoint U+2B776, which has this UTF-8 encoding in hexadecimal:
0x2B776 | F0 | AB | 9D | B6 |
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Obviously, right? This is the same thing in octal:
0533566 | 360 | 253 | 235 | 266 |
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The first octal digit of a leading byte is 3, of a continuation byte is 2, and of an ASCII byte is 1 or 0. We only really need to worry about the other digits. Now, compare the other digits of each continuation byte with the octal of the codepoint.
0533566 | 360 | 2 53 | 2 35 | 2 66 |
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Well, that's pretty straightforward. This is because the lower six bits of a UTF-8 byte contain the whole of the value contributed to the codepoint, and each octal digit represents three bits, so two octal digits hold this value exactly.
What about the leading byte? Okay, that's slightly trickier, although still easier than it would be in hexadecimal. As well as contributing a few bits to the codepoint, a leading byte also indicates how many bytes are expected to be in this codepoint (the others of which will be continuation bytes).
So here are the rules, given a leading byte 3xx(in octal):
- If the middle digit is < 4 (i.e. 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 ) then we count it, as we would in a continuation byte.
- Otherwise (i.e. 4 , 5 , 6 ) we count only the last digit, but if the middle digit is 5 (i.e. is odd) then a 1 comes first.
You can often get away without knowing what the length of the sequence should be, but if you have to know then just look at the middle digit: 0-3 is 2-byte, 4-5 is 3-byte, and 6 is 4-byte.
With a little practice these are easy to learn. Much easier than learning the hexadecimal ones. Here are some examples, taken from Wikipedia (where they're written out in hexadecimal, making them a lot harder to read).
044 | 044 | |||
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0242 | 3 02 | 2 42 | ||
020254 | 34 2 | 2 02 | 2 54 | |
0201510 | 36 0 | 2 20 | 2 15 | 2 10 |
Edit— By request, here is an extra example of 35x .
0120254 | 35 2 | 2 02 | 2 54 |
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I can now quite happily read UTF-8 sequences as Unicode codepoints in my head (something I had to do a lot of while working on a UTF-8 library), and with a little thought can write out codepoints in UTF-8 too. But only in octal! If I had to do it in hexadecimal then I wouldn't have a clue.
So please, to make things easier on us humans, write out Unicode in octal .
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