How to fix broken utf-8 encoding in Python?

Question

My string is Niệm Bồ Tát (Thiá»n sÆ° Nhất Hạnh) and I want to decode it to Niệm Bồ Tát (Thiền sư Nhất Hạnh). I see in that site can do that ht

Answer 1

The only thing that helped me with broken cyrillic string - https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy

This module fixes pretty much everything and works much better than online decoders.

>>> from ftfy import fix_encoding
>>> mystr = '09. Bát Nhã Tâm Kinh'
>>> fix_encoding(mystr)
'09. Bát Nhã Tâm Kinh'

It can be easily installed using pip install ftfy