Quoth Karl Williamson: > I concede that there are encodings that do use the 80-9F range, and these could be wrongly guessed. The most likely one still in common use is CP 1252. I did try once to create a string that made sense in both encodings, and I did succeed, but it was quite hard for me to do, and was very short; much shorter than an error message. Actual, non-synthetic example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muvrar%C3%A1%C5%A1%C5%A1a The name "Muvrarášša" can be encoded in Windows-1252 as the octets (hex) 4D 75 76 72 61 72 E1 9A 9A 61 which is also the correct UTF-8 encoding of the string "Muvrarᚚa", where the next-to-last character is U+169A OGHAM LETTER PEITH. /Bo LindberghThread Previous | Thread Next