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by mpyne 4701 days ago
This is awesome. They even have a stylesheet apparently.

However though the file claims to be UTF-8, vim seems to disagree, at least for title 10. I can't tell what encoding it really is though, doesn't seem to be latin1 or windows-1252 either.

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The encoding looks like valid UTF-8, at least for the first few pages that I glanced at.

I did notice the section references look a little strange in vim, e.g. "act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 1" near the top; it consists of c2 a7 (section sign), which looks fine, followed by e2 80 af (narrow no-break space), which shows up as a box in vim.

OK, maybe it's just a font thing here on Windows (wouldn't surprise me one bit). I'll try again when I get home tonight.
For posterity's sake, it does work fine here on a system with actual Unicode fonts. So I was wrong to blame the file itself.