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by teddyh 2812 days ago
I can’t edit my post now, but it turns out I was wrong. The range of 128-159 are defined in ISO-8859-1, as little-used “control characters”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#C1_set

So, the trick described by garethrees does work with latin1, and I was mistaken.