With strict parsing mode, Liquid-C is throwing an error message with the first byte of the invalid token.
With multi-byte UTF-8 character such as  , the error message will only display the first byte of the character, \xC2
This error message results the Liquid template output to have invalid UTF-8 byte sequence.
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With strict parsing mode, Liquid-C is throwing an error message with the first byte of the invalid token. With multi-byte UTF-8 character such as
 
, the error message will only display the first byte of the character,\xC2
This error message results the Liquid template output to have invalid UTF-8 byte sequence.