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Indeed, you can't assume UTF-8.

What you do, rather, is drop support for non-UTF-8.

Work with tech-stacks whose text handling is based strictly around Unicode and UTF-8, and find enough opportunities that way that you don't have to care about anything else.

Let the customers who cling to data in weird encodings go to someone who makes it a nice to support that.



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