[reportlab-users] speeding up parse_utf8?

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:50:08PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
> Do you know if the python parse_utf8 in pdfmetrics is correct. I looked
> at the source code and see a lot more corners for the built in
> utf8_decode.=20

There's no parse_utf8 in pdfmetrics.  Did you mean parse_utf8 in
ttfonts.py?  It is mostly correct, in a sense that it accepts valid
UTF-8 correctly.  It does not reject all cases of invalid UTF-8 (like
overlong sequences or unassigned codes such as U+FFFE or surrogates).
I would trust Python's builtin UTF-8 codec more.

Marius Gedminas
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