> How are you defining "valid UTF-8"? Is there a codepoint in UTF-8 > between \x00 and \xff that isn't valid? Is there a reason to ever do
Like, half of them? \x80 .. \xff are all invalid as UTF-8. > bitwise operations on anything other than 8-bit codepoints? I am very confused. THIS IS WHAT WE ALL SEEM TO BE SAYING. BITOPS ONLY ON EIGHT-BIT DATA. AM I WRONG? >