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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/patches/623/
Reported by: gallaecio
Created on: 2013-08-03 21:14:53.303000
Subject: Remove error-prone invalid-char exception
Original description:
The code removed by this patch was preventing me from loading the following page:

http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/fy/Fryske_kompjûterwurden

Created attachment 13367 [details]
Copy of attachment from http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/patches/623/attachment/patch.diff

uFFFD is the replacement character, and should never be in a correct title. The problem in the KDE case was a latin-1/utf-8 mess, which caused an invalid page title (both by our and mediawikis norms)