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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".