in reply to Re: error: unrecognised character \xC2 at the end of line
in thread error: unrecognised character \xC2 at the end of line

What encoding is your file? I'm guessing UCS2 Big Endian. This is what i reverse that as
!#u/rsb/nip/re lw- rpni(t¨ÂiH¨Â;)
Notice Hi (or iH) is surrounded by two characters (¨Â). I think you need to stick with utf8 or ASCII (ascii quotes are hex 22, chr 34).