Dealing with Excel encoding issues

unfuck-encoding.rb

string.chars.map.with_index do |c, i|
    n = c.encode('windows-1252') rescue nil
    n ||= c.encode('iso-8859-1') rescue nil
    puts "#{i}: #{c}" unless n
    n.bytes.first
  end
  .pack('C*')
  .force_encoding('utf-8')