$services = array(
            'content_type' => $repository->getContentTypeService(),
            'content'      => $repository->getContentService(),
            'location'     => $repository->getLocationService(),
            'search'       => $repository->getSearchService()
        );

        $contentType = $services['content_type']->loadContentTypeByIdentifier('folder');
        $contentCreateStruct = $services['content']->newContentCreateStruct($contentType, 'eng-US');
        $contentCreateStruct->setField('name', 'Test ' . chr(194));

        $locationCreateStruct = $services['location']->newLocationCreateStruct(1);
        $draft = $services->createContent($contentCreateStruct, array($locationCreateStruct));
        $content = $services->publishVersion($draft->versionInfo);

[Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\DriverException]                                                                                                                                          
  An exception occurred while executing 'INSERT INTO `ezcontentobject` (`id`, `current_version`, `name`, `contentclass_id`, `section_id`, `owner_id`, `initial_language_id`, `remot  
  e_id`, `modified`, `published`, `status`, `language_mask`) VALUES (null, :placeholder1, :placeholder2, :placeholder3, :placeholder4, :placeholder5, :placeholder6, :placeholder7,  
   :placeholder8, :placeholder9, :placeholder10, :placeholder11)' with params [1, "\x54\x65\x73\x74\x20\xc2", 1, 1, 329, 2, "0de497092cb419f116fb1c0ad2223a1c", 0, 0, 0, 2]:         
                                                                                                                                                                                     
  SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value: '\xC2' for column 'name' at row 1