Problem to put a special character in a string

I read a file that contains some special characters.
One of them has a hexadecimal value '8D'.
When i put this in a string or a char, it give me '?'.
If i read my file int by int, this char value is 65533
How can I do to display this character as it must be? How can i transform it to put it in a string?

8D is "reverse linefeed" in unicode: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
Obviously it's something else in your system's character encoding. What do you think you should get from 8D?

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