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Example HTML5 UTF-8 string with errors
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| html_example = "41 98 BA 42 E2 98 43 E2 98 BA E2 98" | |
| bytes_in_hex = html_example.split(" ") | |
| html_example_bytes = ''.join((chr(int(x,16)) for x in bytes_in_hex)) | |
| # html_example_bytes.decode('utf-8') #Throws error | |
| replaced_unicode = html_example_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace') | |
| assert(u'A\ufffd\ufffdB\ufffdC\u263a\ufffd' == replaced_unicode) |
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