Messages longer than 127 characters not decoded.

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When sending messages that are longer than a 127 characters messages are not 
decoded and appear like this when I debug the hp socket server by passing the 
message to say():
��<c��en��sg��ty��>M��sa��</��pe��au��or
��hr��</��th��><��>1��.0��.1��ip��ms��as
��gh��ms��<d��et��e>��fa��</��te��me��/c
��en��sg�
> 
��<c��en��sg��ty��>M��sa��</��pe��au��or
��hr��</��th��><��>1��.0��.1��ip��ms��as
��gh��ms��<d��et��e>��fa��</��te��me��/c
��en��sg�

If I make the message one character shorter it works fine. Any ideas?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by snork...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2011 at 11:30