Re: not all is lost but far too much for far too long
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Thu Jul 04 2019 02:50 am

 > Hey Rob!
 >
 >  RS> Well mannered implementations should gracefully handle this
 >  RS> situation
 >
 > Do you mean like the 'ignoring' of 0x8d as opposed to deleting it?

I think that's a completely different issue.

 > Anyhow
 > for my part it really doesn't matter as there is no consequences for
 > 'ignoring' ftsc standards with utf-8.  With or without it is still utf8 ...
 > unless of course there are any 0x8d trailing bytes which will the be
 > stripped and then the kludge will be wrong.

I agree: tossers probably should not be stripping 0x8d's.

I don't think that has anything to do with "CHRS: UTF-8 2" vs
"CHRS: UTF-8 4".
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