code: def repercent_broken_unicode(path):
      
      # originally from django.utils.encoding
      while True:
          try:
              return path.decode('utf-8')
          except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
              repercent = quote(path[e.start:e.end], safe=b"/#%[]=:;$&()+,!?*@'~")
              path = path[:e.start] + repercent.encode('ascii') + path[e.end:]
docs: As per section 3.2 of RFC 3987, step three of converting a URI into an IRI,
      we need to re-percent-encode any octet produced that is not part of a
      strictly legal UTF-8 octet sequence.