Your assumtions are rather correct.

All strings will be in this format except that they will have stuff before them and stuff behind them. This is actually embedded into a SQL select statement and needs to be evaluated to be able be read and/or parsed properly. For instance:

select char(123)+char(107)+char(112)+char(43) from table
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No, there will not be any other functions and it can most definitely be trusted.