I bet that if I looked into how UNICODE points are transformed into UTF-8, I'd find the presence of those bytes impossible.

Definitely a safe bet. In UTF8, it's either ASCII, or it's part of a wide (multi-byte) character. All bytes of every UTF8 wide character always have their 8th bit set (i.e. are not ASCII). There's a section of the perlunicode manual that explains UTF8 encoding, and here is the very helpful chart that summarizes (slightly modified): 


          Scalar Value         UTF-8
         (UTF-16 range)        1st byte   2nd byte   3rd byte   4th by
+te

        0000.0000,0xxx.xxxx    0xxx.xxxx
         (U0000 - U007F)       (00 - 7F)

        0000.0yyy,yyxx.xxxx    110y.yyyy  10xx.xxxx
         (U0080 - U07FF)       (C2 - DF)  (80 - BF)

        zzzz.yyyy,yyxx.xxxx    1110.zzzz  10yy.yyyy  10xx.xxxx
         (U0800 - UFFFF)       (E0 - EF)  (A0 - BF)  (80 - BF)

 u.uuuu,zzzz.yyyy,yyxx.xxxx    1111.0uuu  10uu.zzzz  10yy.yyyy  10xx.x
+xxx
        (U010000 - U10FFFF)    (F0 - F7)  (90 - BF)  (80 - BF)  (80 - 
+BF)
        1101.10ww,wwzz.zzyy *
        1101.11yy,yyxx.xxxx

 * uuuuu = wwww + 1 (i.e. uuuuu - 1 = wwww, given 10000(b) >= uuuuu >=
+ 1)

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(The rows that match /^[10xyz., ]+$/ are showing the bit patterns that demonstrate how the 16-bit character code point value is distributed over one or more bytes in UTF8; the rows containing hex numbers show the ranges implied by the bit patterns.)

Note that unicode defines characters with code points beyond the 16-bit range, and these are cleanly stored as 4-byte characters in utf8; they're a bit messy in utf-16 (involving 16-bit code points in the evil "surrogate range").

In reply to Re^3: quoting for system() and friends by graff
in thread quoting for system() and friends by pileofrogs

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