Honglei Chen writes:
> The "Entry_form" is C! rather than "&#00E1" or "/xE1", very weird
> though.

Not weird at all.  The hexadecimal number E1 is the decimal number 225,
and that code point in the Unicode character set is LATIN SMALL LETTER E
WITH ACUTE.  However, in the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set
it is represented as a 2-byte hexadecimal sequence C3 A1 (195 161 decimal),
which looks like LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH TILDE followed by INVERTED
EXCLAMATION MARK when viewed as a sequence of (single-byte) ISO-8859-1
characters.

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Kevin Rodgers