[aprssig] APRS IS weirdness

[Stephen H. Smith]

steve at dimse.com wrote:

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>My present guess is somewhere a hub is eating the backslashes, probably a third
>tier hub in Europe, explaining why this is a central European problem. The
>trouble with this explanation is the hub must also be injecting a duplicate
>unaltered packet. 
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>I just can't see how this is happening. 
>

Just a wild speculation, but could this possibly be due to a non-English 
user inadvertantly trying to type a double-byte-coded UniCode extended 
character into the string?