Extended ASCII Codes, QM output incorrect

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How do I output _s correctly in below example?
ss contains Extended ASCII Code (see https://www.asciitable.com)

I looked in settings and QM is running in unicode.

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str ss="▓▓" ;; https://www.asciitable.com/ -> 2 x 178
out ss ;; correct output
_s.left(ss 1)
;; _s.ConvertEncoding(? ?)  --->   65001    utf-8    Unicode (UTF-8)   <---- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/code-page-identifiers edit: _unicode is same as 65001
out _s ;; incorrect output