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to: August Abolins
from: Oli
date: 2020-01-24 08:23:00
subject: UTF-8 nodelist report

Good ${greeting_time}, August!

24 Jan 20 03:29, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:


 MvdV>> File: dailyutf.024
 MvdV>>
 MvdV>> ,208,-=P=I=X=-,S?ve,Bj�rn_Felten,46-31-960447,9600,CM,XA,V3
 MvdV>> 4 1 line found with an ill formed UTF-8 sequence.

 AA> Hello Michael,

 AA> When I look a that nodelist, the line above looks fine as:

 AA> ,208,-=P=I=X=-,Säve,Björn_Felten,46-31-960447,9600,CM,XA,V34

 AA> In otherwords, I see the a with the 2 dots in "Säve", and the o
 AA> with the 2 dots in "Björn" as they should be.


 AA> But the 2nd line following the Zone,2 line *does* look like a
 AA> fail:

I think whatever program you are using to view the nodelist doesn't interpret 
the text as UTF-8, but as ISO 8859-1, Window-1252 or something similar. The 
report is correct.

But there shouldn't be any invalid characters in the nodelist. They should be 
translated or stripped. A UTF-8 nodelist that is not a valid UTF-8 file is a 
bit pointless.


 
* Origin: kakistocracy (2:280/464.47)
                         

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