Simon Willison’s Weblog

18th January 2021

TIL Fixing broken text encodings with sqlite-transform and ftfy — I was working with a database table that included values that were clearly in the wrong character encoding - values like this:

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Posted 18th January 2021 at 8:44 pm

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