my application was searching for an album by title and artist name and i a http 502. the tags in these files appear to have some charset corruption but, as they are properly escaped for both http and lucene, i don't believe they should cause any crashes or errors.

the url in question is: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group?query=releasegroup:"%ef%bf%bfIf+It+Weren%27t+For+Venetian+Blinds+It+Would+Be+Curtains+For+Us+Al" AND artist:"Piebald"

the 0xEFBFBF is what's causing the issue.