In a recent note, Thomas E. Dickey said:

> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:28:26 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> would a 0x00 be legal following the 0x80?  (If not, we could add a check
> for that special case).
> 
I defer that one to the Unicode/UTF8/CJK/Big5 experts.  Such a check
would be insurance for the multibyte cases, but might leave some
breakage for non-ASCII ISO8859 characters.  Would a character with the
0x80 bit set be legal at the end of an ISO8859 string?

-- gil
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