On Aug 25, 2013 5:28 PM, "John Scipione" <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This might not be likely but in the interest of defensive programming I wanted to prevent the problem from being able to present itself. > > Am I being too cautious? > Yes. A multibyte constant will always have the high bit set on the first byte, so that can't in fact happen. Regards, Rene