in reply to Re^5: Malformed UTF-8 character
in thread Malformed UTF-8 character
My problem was that the \x96 was not the Unicode code-point, or even
the utf8 encoding of the character. I now know that it is the cp1252 encoding of \N{EN DASH}. I had forgotten that there is such a thing as cp1252!
Bill
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