[issue7649] "u'%c' % char" broken for chars in range '\x80'-'\xFF'

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

Marc-André's remark was that if char<0x80 (the vast majority), it's not necessary to call any decode function: just copy the byte. Other cases (error, or non-default encoding) may use a slower path.

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