I just edited the comment before I saw your answer. I realised my mistake and wanted to sink through the earth. Everyone has brain farts, I guess. What I ended

I just edited the comment before I saw your answer. I realised my mistake and wanted to sink through the earth. Everyone has brain farts, I guess. What I ended up doing was limiting the charset size to 256 a maximum of characters, and then discarding any value that is larger than the current charset.