+ # _EncodeLOB, and thus LargeContent, takes bytes; Content is
+ # in characters. Encode it; this may replace illegal
+ # codepoints (e.g. \x{FDD0}) with \x{FFFD}.
+ $args{'LargeContent'} = Encode::encode("UTF-8",$args{'Content'});
+ $args{'Content'} = undef;