No. You have to use UTF-8 if you want to handle code values greater than FF. That is what UTF-8 is for.
Philip,He's probably using one of the many multi-byte encoding common in Eastern Asia and has no choice about that.
You're right pointing out UTF-8 at any rate, of course, since it's the only way out the encoding maze.
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