In article <20170605192131.ga60...@server.roquesor.com> you wrote: > > Encodings using more bytes than required are invalid. In particular, > 11000000 and 11000001 are not valid start bytes, the byte after > 11100000 must be at least 10100000, and the byte after 11110000 must > be at least 10010000. >
Someone off list explained me this is true just for the exact 11100000 byte. I'd assumed the man page was referring to any 1110.... sequence. Now I understand.