Subj : not all is lost but far too much for far too long
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Wed Jul 03 2019 08:03 pm

 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".