decode double-encoded data

decode-double-encoded-data.md

Encoding to Latin 1 lets us interpret characters as bytes to fix the encoding.

Rule of thumb: whenever you have double-encoded data, undo the extra 'layer' of encoding by decoding to Unicode using that codec, then encoding again with Latin-1 to get bytes again.

"»Æ¹ûÊ÷".encode("latin1").decode("gb2312")

from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20922024/how-to-convert-encoding-in-python