Re: mysterious c0 80

James Cloos <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:32:49 -0400

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>>>>> "KH" == Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes:

KH> C0 80 is technically invalid UTF-8, but
KH> it does decode to a NUL character (00) so I could see a naive encoder
KH> converting a NUL to those bytes.

for a while there was a wide-spread recomendation for most code to do
that when encountering NULs.  doing so lost favour, but it should not be
unexpected even so.

some library or subprocess probably generated it in the case at point.

-JimC
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