Ascii smiley face challenge
Python 3, 97 bytes
The string has a leading and trailing unprintable with value 5.

for c in"&#5;wç¿ğŗŗĵý6çw&#5;":c=ord(c);s=c%8*'*'+c//8%7*' '+c//56*'*';print(f'{s+s[::-1]:^26}')

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