>>263,267
I'm a bit late to the party and I don't know elisp very well but if I take the string of >>194 in the sexp file, I can get back the utf-8 representation like this:
ELISP> (string-as-multibyte (apply #'unibyte-string (mapcar 'multibyte-char-to-unibyte "ã\201\212ç\226²ã\202\214ã\201\225ã\202\223.")))
"お疲れさん."