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> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:47:33 +0100
> 
> > iso-8859-1 doesn't cover the entire range of 8-bit bytes from 0x80 to
> > 0xff, so not every byte can be typed with this trick.
> 
> I just tried 0x80, 0x90, 0x85, 0xff and 0x7f which all worked.

What do you mean by "worked"?  Did you try to save them?

Inserting raw bytes into a multibyte buffer is playing with fire.