Paste in some unicode text that appears to be broken and this tool will use the ftfy Python library to try and fix it.
import ftfy.bad_codecs # enables sloppy- codecs s = "LiÄ\x82¨ge Avenue de l'HÄ\x82´pital" s = s.encode('latin-1') s = s.decode('utf-8') s = s.encode('sloppy-windows-1250') s = s.decode('utf-8') print(s)
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