Imagine you have a string in UTF8 that you want to spindle in some way involving a handful of punctuation -- let's say space, comma, double-quote, and a pair of brackets).

It's _guaranteed_ that the string is in UTF8, but it _may_ not have any characters 128 and over in it.

Do you _need_ to scan through the UTF8 byte sequences to ensure you can't fuck up, or can you just shrug and go char by char, since the _important_ characters you're looking for are all <128?