[e] (0) Define 'overlong form'.

Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11369 git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@5733 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Jan 1, 2011 · e253b59 · e253b59
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diff --git a/complete.html b/complete.html
@@ -3604,7 +3604,7 @@ <h3 id=utf-8><span class=secno>2.4 </span>UTF-8</h3>
 
   <dl class=switch><dt>One byte in the range FE to FF</dt>
 
-   <dt>Overlong forms (e.g. F0 80 80 A0)</dt>
+   <dt><a href=#overlong-form title="overlong form">Overlong forms</a> (e.g. F0 80 80 A0)</dt>
 
    <dt>One byte in the range C0 to C1, followed by one byte in the range 80 to BF</dt>
 
@@ -3638,7 +3638,12 @@ <h3 id=utf-8><span class=secno>2.4 </span>UTF-8</h3>
 
    <dd>Each byte must be replaced with a U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.</dd>
 
-  </dl><p class=example>For example, the byte string "41 98 BA 42 E2 98
+  </dl><p>For the purposes of the above requirements, an <dfn id=overlong-form>overlong
+  form</dfn> in UTF-8 is a sequence that encodes a codepoint using
+  more bytes than the minimum needed to encode that codepoint in
+  UTF-8.</p>
+
+  <p class=example>For example, the byte string "41 98 BA 42 E2 98
   43 E2 98 BA E2 98" would be converted to the string
   "A&#65533;&#65533;B&#65533;C&#9786;&#65533;".</p>
 

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -3583,7 +3583,7 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
 
   <dl class=switch><dt>One byte in the range FE to FF</dt>
 
-   <dt>Overlong forms (e.g. F0 80 80 A0)</dt>
+   <dt><a href=#overlong-form title="overlong form">Overlong forms</a> (e.g. F0 80 80 A0)</dt>
 
    <dt>One byte in the range C0 to C1, followed by one byte in the range 80 to BF</dt>
 
@@ -3617,7 +3617,12 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
 
    <dd>Each byte must be replaced with a U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.</dd>
 
-  </dl><p class=example>For example, the byte string "41 98 BA 42 E2 98
+  </dl><p>For the purposes of the above requirements, an <dfn id=overlong-form>overlong
+  form</dfn> in UTF-8 is a sequence that encodes a codepoint using
+  more bytes than the minimum needed to encode that codepoint in
+  UTF-8.</p>
+
+  <p class=example>For example, the byte string "41 98 BA 42 E2 98
   43 E2 98 BA E2 98" would be converted to the string
   "A&#65533;&#65533;B&#65533;C&#9786;&#65533;".</p>
 

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -2592,7 +2592,7 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
 
    <dt>One byte in the range FE to FF</dt>
 
-   <dt>Overlong forms (e.g. F0 80 80 A0)</dt>
+   <dt><span title="overlong form">Overlong forms</span> (e.g. F0 80 80 A0)</dt>
 
    <dt>One byte in the range C0 to C1, followed by one byte in the range 80 to BF</dt>
 
@@ -2628,6 +2628,11 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
 
   </dl>
 
+  <p>For the purposes of the above requirements, an <dfn>overlong
+  form</dfn> in UTF-8 is a sequence that encodes a codepoint using
+  more bytes than the minimum needed to encode that codepoint in
+  UTF-8.</p>
+
   <p class="example">For example, the byte string "41 98 BA 42 E2 98
   43 E2 98 BA E2 98" would be converted to the string
   "A&#xFFFD;&#xFFFD;B&#xFFFD;C&#x263A;&#xFFFD;".</p>