note Jim <p><tt>\xFE</tt> is 254, not 255. It's the <i>second</i> biggest a byte gets. <tt>\xFF</tt> is the biggest byte.</p> <p>In any case, the character with code point <tt>U+00FE</tt> isn't a single-byte character in any Unicode character encoding scheme.</p> <p>I suspect the peculiar reference to <tt>U+00FE</tt> in the documentation has something to do with the Concordance DAT file. I <i>hope</i> it does, because it would then imply that [mod://Text::CSV_XS] can be used to parse Concordance DAT records, which is precisely what I need to do.</p> <p>Jim</p> 1008017 1008043