Hello Michiel,  
    
  can you please, if you mark your message as "UTF-8", post erroneus string in  
  safe way, e.g. as hex dump, or replacing invalid codepoints with some  
  character like question mark?  
  If you copy from nodelist INVALID string with BINARY AS IS, it obviously  
  makes  
  your message invalid too.  
  I was to forcibly mark your message as CP437 to read it, becouse trying to  
  decode it as UTF-8 ends with error.  
    
  orig.message to echo UTF-8 on 21 Feb 25  00:15:50  
   MV> chkwf8 2.0.1 W32 UTF-8 well formed sequence test.  
   MV> ÇÇÇÇÇÇ 2015-2017, Michiel van der Vlist, PA0MMV (2:280/5555)  
   MV>  
   MV> File: dailyutf.052  
   MV>  
   MV> ,208,-=P=I=X=-,S?ve,BjÇÇrn_Felten,46-31-960447,9600,CM,XA,V34  
   MV>  
   MV> 1430 lines read.  
   MV> 1411 lines found with ASCII only.  
   MV> 18 lines found with well formed UTF-8 sequences.  
   MV> 1 line found with an ill formed UTF-8 sequence.  
   MV> 0 lines found with a BOM.  
    
  Sergey  
    
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