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in thread unknown encoding

You're welcome! I just noticed <code> doesn't render correctly in a list, should have properly proofread this.

I actually meant \x7f instead of \x79---off the top of my head I'd have used \x80 as the start of invalid "high-ASCII" but as 0x7f is a control character like the ones below \x20 it makes sense to include it as you did in the OP.