characters for elt: Ç foo
bytes for elt: C3 87 20 66 6F 6F
SV = PV(0x28ba328) at 0x236d2b8
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
  PV = 0x2b548b8 "\303\207 foo"\0
  CUR = 6
  LEN = 10
  COW_REFCNT = 1