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Re:Why GNU moe does not use UTF-8 or other form of Unicode? by eqvinox on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:31AM (#29991598)
> There is no such thing as an 'ambiguous', 'invalid', or 'out of range' ISO-8859-15 character.

Er, okay, so, what does '\x00' (NUL), '\x05' (ENQ), '\x0e' (SO), '\x10' (DLE) etc. "mean"?

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Re:Why GNU moe does not use UTF-8 or other form of Unicode? by vintermann on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:13AM (#29992250)
A quick look at the wiki page for 8859-15 reveals that there are in fact 33 bytes that are invalid/out of range for that character encoding: 00-1f, and 7f-9f inclusive.
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