Questions about UnicodeDecodeError

I have a situation where I am reading data that I have no control over and
inserting it into a db. The data is http headers. I am storing them in
postgres db in a text field and the db encoding is SQL_ASCII. Since the
data can be anything even non compliant http headers with anything for its
values I don't want to modify the data before I store it in the db.
However this is causing issues with certain values causing the
UnicodeDecodeError. For example I have a specific case where the user
agent is set to 'KC\xd4\xda\xcf\xdf\xc9\xfd\xbc\xb6'. I have been trying
to look for a way to deal with these cases gracefully in the models
__unicode__ method but nothing I have tried has worked.

Thanks,
Ali Mesdaq
Security Researcher
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