UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x9c

Question

I have a socket server that is supposed to receive UTF-8 valid characters from clients.

The problem is some clients (mainly hackers) are sending all the wrong kind of

Answer 1

>>> '\x9c'.decode('cp1252')
u'\u0153'
>>> print '\x9c'.decode('cp1252')
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