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Repair damaged UTF-8 string in python
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damaged_utf8.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
name_kaputt = 'Gesch\xc3\xa4ftsstelle'
name = ''.join(chr(ord(c)) for c in name_kaputt).decode("utf-8")
print name_kaputt
print name
# Before: Geschäftsstelle
# Result: Geschäftsstelle
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