utf8.overlong-sequence

catch name

Library: UTF-8 (OMUTF8)
Import : omutf8.xmd

Declaration

export catch overlong-sequence value string sequence

Argument definitions

sequence: The overlong sequence that triggered the exception.

Purpose

The utf8.overlong-sequence exception is triggered when a function of the OMUTF8 library encounters an overlong UTF-8 encoding of a Unicode code point.

Usage Note

To use utf8.overlong-sequence, you must import OMUTF8 into your program using an import declaration such as:

 import "omutf8.xmd" prefixed by utf8.

Related Topics

Catch and throw

Other Library Functions

utf8.byte-order-mark
utf8.char
utf8.code-point
utf8.encoding
utf8.invalid-code-point
utf8.length
utf8.multi-byte-char
utf8.omutf8-version
utf8.overlong-sequence
utf8.single-byte-char