[bug #50606] Garbage printed with "no such file or directory"

[Dale Worley]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #50606 (project findutils):

As an aside, when garbage characters show up where text is expected, and
especially if ordinary ASCII characters seem to be coming through OK, it's
often worth checking whether you're seeing non-ASCII characters encoded with
UTF-8.  I wind up doing this once or twice a year.

Of course, you can't memorize the Unicode table, but you can remember the way
to translate:  First, figure out what the actual bytes are.  (The OP did an
admirable job of this, showing which bytes had the high bit set.)  Decode them
into their bits.  Now interpret those bits using the UTF-8 encoding
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8) to find out what the character numbers
("code points") are.  Then look them up in the Unicode roadmap
(http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp/).

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