Re: mysterious c0 80

Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:56:53 +0000

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Hi Michael,

> hexdump of this draft folder before I hit send:
>
> 0000520 2074 6f66 2072 6874 7461 0a2e 430a 756f
> 0000530 646c 6220 2e65 0a0a 000a
>
> Note 00 0a.

If one wrongly encodes NUL as two-byte UTF-8, intended for U+0080 to
U+7fff, one gets c0 80.  This is the bastard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Modified_UTF-8

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Cheers, Ralph.