[kalleboo]

Not crashing for me in 10.10

    ~$ printf 'Unicode strike\xcd\x9bs again' | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 od -tc
    0000000    U   n   i   c   o   d   e       s   t   r   i   k   e    ͛  **
    0000020    s       a   g   a   i   n                                    
    0000027