On Sep 15, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Vincent Isambart wrote:

>> I assume their are values of UTF-8 where it would fail though.  For  
>> example,
>> if the last byte of a multibyte character looks like a quote or  
>> comma.
>
> The last byte of a multibyte character cannot look like an ASCII
> character in UTF-8 (it can happen in other encodings however) because
> in UTF-8, all bytes of a multibyte character have the first bit set to
> 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description

You're right of course.  Thanks for reminding me.

James Edward Gray II