R. David Murray added the comment:
It works fine for me. If I write the data to a file (using print) and look at
it with vi, I see your expected string with <81> on the end. It also works
fine in my console (which otherwise produces mostly unknown character glyphs;
I'm using a utf8 locale) i
New submission from dagnam:
print '\xa3\xb5\xdd\xf7\xa9\xa7\xab\xd8\xef\xc7\xac\xf4\xfb\xb7'
#gives
£µÝ÷©§«ØïǬôû·
print '\xa3\xb5\xdd\xf7\xa9\xa7\xab\xd8\xef\xc7\xac\xf4\xfb\xb7\x81'
#gives
ﾣﾵÝ÷ﾩﾧﾫØïǬôûﾷﾁ
print '\x81\xa3'print '\xa3'
ﾁﾣ £
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