[Tutor] Is there a package to "un-mangle" characters?

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

Today I had a csv file in utf-8 encoding, but part of the accented characters were mangled. The data were scraped from a website and it turned out that at least some of the data were mangled on the website already. Bits of the text were actually cp1252 (or cp850), I think, even though the webpage was in utf-8 Is there any package that helps to correct such issues? (I tried looking for one but it doesn't really help that there is such a thing as name mangling! ;-) This comes pretty close though: https://gist.github.com/litchfield/1282752

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Albert-Jan



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