Thus said Stefan Sperling on Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:27:59 +0100:

> Please test the UTF-8 code path as well.

Yes,  I  did some  minimal  testing  of  UTF-8,  but not  nearly  enough
apparently.

Thanks for the feedback and pointers.  I'll go back to the drawing board
and see if I can clean it up more.

Andy