convert broken latin1 to utf8 wordpress sql table backups

convert.py

with open('exp-my-database-utf8.sql', 'r', encoding='utf8') as s:
    input = s.read()
    output = ''

    split_char = 't'
    split = input.split(split_char)

    corrected = 0
    not_corrected = 0

    for i in split:
        try:
            wrong = i.encode('windows-1252')
            right = wrong.decode('utf8')
            output += right
            corrected += 1
        except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError) as e:
            print(i)
            output += i
            not_corrected += 1
        output += split_char
output = output[:-1]
with open('output.sql', 'w', encoding='utf8') as o:
    o.write(output)

print(f'corrected {corrected} segments')
print(f'couldnt corrected {not_corrected} segments')