David Crayford expounded on some issues with UTF-8 *on z/OS* and _BPX_AUTOCVT=ALL. All legitimate, all real problems, but really z/OS issues, not UTF-8 issues. That is, these don't reflect problems with UTF-8 itself. What we see all the time is data that's ISO8859-1 and is treated as 7-bit ASCII (which mostly works) or UTF-8 (which sorta works). The problem, of course, is that every character in this note works fine in that scenario, but as soon as you get into some interesting glyphs, Bad Things happen. And then it's "Your product isn't handling this right"--no, you lied to it and are paying the price, sorry! Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one, even if you can whack things with both of them.
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