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I once did it, encoded UTF-8 text in a legacy text because the system interface didn't support unicode, and decoded on the other end. Used • prefix as a marker of encoded string... now that I think about it, it could be just old good BOM. MIME standard also has extensive experience in packing arbitrary data in 7-bit clean text.



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