UTF-8 decoding

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

John Meacham <john at repetae.net> writes:

> Another possibility is quasi-utf8 encoding. where it passes through any
> invalid utf8 sequences as latin1 characters. in practice, this works
> very well as interpreting both latin1 and utf8 transparently but is
> more than somewhat hacky.

It would not be reliable. I'm strongly against that: it gives an
illusion that Latin1 works, but it breaks in very rare cases.

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