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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.20.
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>      Prevent error recursion crashes when encoding conversion fails (Tom)
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>      This change extends fixes made in the last two minor releases for
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      conversion and report the plain-ASCII form of any error message,
      if we find we have gotten into a recursive error reporting situation.
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>      Disallow <TT
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>      This prevents one possible scenario for encoding conversion failure.
      The previous change is a backstop to guard against other kinds of
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