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+Unprintable characters in kernel logs, when read via /dev/kmsg, are
+escaped as \xNN where NN the character's ascii code in hex. Those are
+expected to be decoded to results, if they really are
+printable. Kernel's idea of nonprintable is "c < 0x20 || c > 127".