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Dealing with Excel encoding issues
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unfuck-encoding.rb
string.chars.map.with_index do |c, i|
n = c.encode('windows-1252') rescue nil
n ||= c.encode('iso-8859-1') rescue nil
puts "#{i}: #{c}" unless n
n.bytes.first
end
.pack('C*')
.force_encoding('utf-8')
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