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Subject: Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:08:55 -0400
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On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:38:09 +0300, ????? <nikos@superhost.gr> declaimed
the following:

>What character is 0xb6 anyways?
>
	It depends on the encoding... In EBCDIC it's unassigned. It's a
paragraph mark in ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). Apparently also a paragraph
mark in ISO-Latin-9 (ISO-8859-15).

	If it is valid in UTF-8, I can't find a reference. It's not a prefix
for a multi-byte character, which implies that the previous byte should
have been something in prefix or another extended byte entry...



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