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While procedurally correct, this description conflates "Unicode" (the charset) and "UTF-8" (an 8-bit encoding often used for Unicode; and note that's an encoding, not a formatting). Also, UTF-8 is self-synchronising; if you see byte 0x67 then it's always 'g'; it can never be a continuation byte. The fact that there's no valid continuation byte following 0xc6 is an error, but it doesn't cause misintepretation of 0x67.

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2024-11-14 12:50:36 +00:00
Commented Nov 14, 2024 at 12:50
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