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The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
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Page 44
5th paragraph, starting with "The utf8 view" |
"The utf8 view" and "the utf16 view" sections incorrectly describe the Unicode formats.
First, this is technically minor but practically very annoying; it mixes decimal (97) and hexadecimal (0xCC and 0x08), which is hard to read. Hexadecimal is the standard for Unicode and most character set references.
"In the example above, the character a would be represented by the 8-bit value 97, and the umlaut would be represented by the 8-bit value 0xCC followed by the 8-bit value 0x08."
'a' is 0x61 (or 97 decimal), yes, but the umlaut is 0xCC followed by 0x88.
"The utf16 view" section says "the character a would be represented by the 16-bit value 97, and the umlaut would be represented by the 16-bit value 0xCC08." Again, 97 is correct, but confusing; 0x0061 would be relatively standard. The umlaut is 0x0308, though.
Note from the Author or Editor:
The submission correctly points out an error in the text, which has now been fixed in the latest draft. |
David Starner |
Sep 30, 2015 |
Nov 11, 2015 |