Hallo mark!

 ml> FWIW1: there are two places where 0x8d may be acted on...
 ml>   1. the tosser may strip by ignoring completely and skipping

I am not sure what you mean by that but if the end result is what Nancy shows
in her quotes of the trailing 0x8d in the 4 utf8 characters then that would be
the "may strip" result which leaves only the leading byte ... or what I prefer
it be called the masterbyte.  :::evil grin:::

 ml>   2. the BBS may strip or convert to 0x0d while displaying the
          message or when packaging it for offline mail

Which is what happened on at least one BBS according to Nancy, which matches
with what Ozz's quote of the same message showed.  Either way that does not
bode well since 0x8d is a well used trailing byte in utf8.

Also worth mentioning is that two of the supported codepages, IBM848 and
IBM866, use 0x8d as the exact same character - "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN" -
while IBM850 uses 0x8d as the same character as IBM437 - "LATIN SMALL LETTER I
WITH GRAVE".

An interesting aside; U+040D known as "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE"
will also work in the phrase, "It is all fun and games until someone loses an
╨.", since the trailing byte happens to be 0x8d.  Although in this case the
masterbyte :::snicker::: 0xd0 will survive but then it no longer is a valid
utf8 character without it's needed trailing byte.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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