2019-01-27 To understand encoding problems, think of unions in C: you write it as one type and read it as another. Following a question by Paedu, I explained the situation quite well (plus wrote a C pro- gram with unions to demonstrate the principle). [0] [0] https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=172060&p=1196598#p1196598 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke