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		mark-r on April 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't just assume UTF-8 Unfortunately Windows code page 1252 has no invalid bytes, so it will always succeed. You'd better try that one last.

Dwedit on April 30, 2024 [–]

81, 8D, 8F, 90, 9D are invalid.

layer8 on April 30, 2024 | [–]

These are actually interpreted as the corresponding C1 control codes by Windows, so arguably not invalid in practice, just formally reserved to be reassigned to other characters in the future.

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