Really Good, Bad UTF-8 example test data

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Xeoncross picture Xeoncross · Aug 23, 2009 · Viewed 90.9k times · Source

So we have the XSS cheat sheet to test our XSS filtering - but other than an example benign page I can't find any evil or malformed test data to make sure that my UTF-8 code can handle missbehaving data.

Where can I find some good uh.. bad data to test with? Or what is a tricky sequence of chars?

Answer

zildjohn01 picture zildjohn01 · Aug 23, 2009

Check out Markus Kuhn’s UTF-8 decoder stress test

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