Don't decode unicode strings.
This does not work with python2.3 and is probably not useful anyway with 2.4.
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<title>Mercurial repositories index</title>
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<h2>Mercurial Repositories</h2>
The specified repository "#repo|escape#" is unknown, sorry.
Please go back to the main repository list page.
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