Comment by 0x000xca0xfe

An error is better than silent corruption, sure.

But there is no silent corruption when you pass the data as opaque bytes, you just get some placeholder symbols when displayed. This is how I see the file in my terminal and I can rm it just fine.

And yes, question marks in the terminal are way better than applications not working at all.

The case of non-UTF-8 being skipped is usually a characteristic of applications written in languages that don't use bytes for their default string type, not the other way around. This has bitten me multiple times with Python2/3 libraries.