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		ks2048 on Nov 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Charset="WTF-8" But on some random website, with people copy-pasting from who-knows-what, they will have to normalize or validate, etc. to deal with such characters.

josephcsible on Nov 25, 2024 [–]

The point is if the standard were to enter it like in the MRZ, it would be easy to validate.

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