Re^5: Best Way to Get Length of UTF-8 String in Bytes?

I can only think of one UTF-16 has that UTF-8 doesn't: It's not mistakable for iso-8859-*.

IIRC, UTF-8 with BOM is unmistakable for iso-8859-*. :)

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Re^6: Best Way to Get Length of UTF-8 String in Bytes? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 25, 2011 at 06:59 UTC
True, but very few database fields, HTML element contents, strings, etc start with a BOM. In fact, it wouldn't even be appropriate for them to start with a BOM.	[reply]