Dear Mr Zeisberg, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Note that we do not go the full nine yards: we could also check that > > the character is encoded with the minimum amount of bytes, as pointed > > out by Uwe Kleine-Koenig. > While we're talking about UTF-8 in commit-logs: I'd prefer to have my > name properly written with o-umlaut. I did this because I have no easy way to input UTF-8, and because I am lazy, and because I did not know how many times this patch has to be revised. Apart from that, it seems that the checking of UTF-8 is actually quite simple, and we could even copy it from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf8_check.c, where the check you proposed is included. But I had enough of UTF-8 for a day. Ciao, Dscho