some hex characters get an extra character inserted infront of it and modified

[edwardlego]

some examples of what happens:
79 => 79
80 => C2 80 (this seems to be the lowest affected)
96 => C2 96
A7 => C2 A7
9E => C2 9E
B2 => C2 B2
88 => C2 88
FD => C3 BD
FB => C3 BB
FF => C3 BF
E0 => C3 A0
D0 => C3 90
C0 => C3 80
BF => C2 BF (here seems to be the limit for the character being edited)

I print the characters in the command prompt and they're fine, but when looking in InsideClipboard, I see there's a difference

here's an example of my data i'm having issues with: (left is what I'm trying to achieve, right is when I put the hex values in the clipboard via klembord)

edit: so I think this is because the dict I have to put the string of hex characters in doesn't support the characters starting from 80, so it is only a 7 bit string while I need an 8 bit one

[edwardlego]

solution for my usecase:
i copied from the source the part that actually puts the data in the clipboard and used the encoding "charmap"

content = {'ladderSnippetXML': data}
print(data)
target = 'ladderSnippetXML'
formats = OrderedDict()
for target, data in content.items():
if not isinstance(data, (str, ByteString, type(None))):
raise TypeError('Unsupported data type:\n{}'.format(repr(data)))
elif data:
if target in TARGETS:
if isinstance(data, str):
formats[TARGETS[target]] = data.encode()
else:
formats[TARGETS[target]] = data
print("istarget")
else:
format = windll.user32.RegisterClipboardFormatW(
create_unicode_buffer(target, 1024))
if isinstance(data, str):
formats[format] = data.encode("charmap")
else:
formats[format] = data
if windll.user32.OpenClipboard(None):
windll.user32.EmptyClipboard()
for format, data in formats.items():
handle = windll.kernel32.GlobalAlloc(
GMEM_MOVEABLE | GMEM_ZEROINIT, len(data) + 2)
ptr = windll.kernel32.GlobalLock(handle)
memmove(ptr, data, len(data))
windll.kernel32.GlobalUnlock(ptr)
windll.user32.SetClipboardData(format, handle)
windll.user32.CloseClipboard()
else:
raise RuntimeError('Failed to open clipboard')