Bug #13590: Change max byte length of UTF-8 to 4 bytes to conform to definition of UTF-8

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: duerst (Martin Dürst)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.5.0dev (2017-05-23 trunk 58852) [x86_64-cygwin]
• Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

This seems to be a leftover of issue #11094.

Keeping the max byte length of UTF-8 at 6 seems to only potentially create some inconsistencies and inefficiencies, for no benefit.

I have assigned this issue to me, and will implement it in a few days unless I hear some significant counterarguments.

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

• Related to Feature #11094: Remove traces of 6-byte UTF-8 added

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

• Related to Feature #13588: Add Encoding#min_char_size, #max_char_size, #minmax_char_size added

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed