Did you consider a less invasive fix along the lines of http://paste.ubuntu.com/1451678/? 'replace' will replace the invalid UTF-8 sequences with U+FFFD, which is not ideal, but it's an uncommon case and probably less risky than your proposal.
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Did you consider a less invasive fix along the lines of http:// paste.ubuntu. com/1451678/? 'replace' will replace the invalid UTF-8 sequences with U+FFFD, which is not ideal, but it's an uncommon case and probably less risky than your proposal.