Address #236

[daveshanley]

Better handling of encoding issues pre-validation.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 98.06%. Comparing base (ae3b0dd) to head (abdef82).
⚠️ Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

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+ Coverage   98.02%   98.06%   +0.04%     
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  Files          64       64              
  Lines        6772     6936     +164     
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+ Hits         6638     6802     +164     
  Misses        133      133              
  Partials        1        1              

Flag	Coverage Δ
unittests	98.06% <100.00%> (+0.04%)	⬆️

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