On: UTF-8 history (2003)

[mirekrusin]

You can also construct malicious payloads which will DoS many implementations with architecture like that.

[kstenerud → mirekrusin]

You can also trivially defend against that by having a max travel distance of, say, 4.

[mirekrusin → kstenerud]

Exactly, so you arrived at the same conclusion - fixed distance so you can safely pick up stream at arbitrary position.

[kstenerud → mirekrusin]

The difference is that the distance limits would be inherent to the codec itself, rather than taking up extra space in the data stream.

[ludamad → kstenerud]

Is that guaranteed to catch all valid cases?