Decode ISO-8859 encoded text to UTF-8

001-escaped-py2.2s.py

#! /usr/bin/env python2

# <bitbar.title>Escaped-Py2</bitbar.title>
# <bitbar.version>v0.0.1</bitbar.version>
# <bitbar.author.github>ianfoo</bitbar.author.github>
# <bitbar.desc>Echo escaped chars to stdout</bitbar.desc>

print("py2: :zzz: P\xe5 tide \xe5 logge av")

decode-it.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/exec"

	"golang.org/x/text/encoding/charmap"
)

func main() {
	c := exec.Cmd{Path: "001-escaped-py2.2s.py"}
	stdout, err := c.Output()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error running command: %w\n", err)
		return
	}

	dec := charmap.ISO8859_1.NewDecoder()
	output, err := dec.String(string(stdout))
	fmt.Println(output)
}

session.txt

❯ ./001-escaped-py2.2s.py
py2: :zzz: P� tide � logge av
❯ go run decode-it.go
py2: :zzz: På tide å logge av