RS> Well mannered implementations should gracefully handle this RS> situation
Do you mean like the 'ignoring' of 0x8d as opposed to deleting it? 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.
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