ftfy (fixes text for you) version 3.0

Originally posted on August 26, 2013.

About a year ago, we blogged about how to ungarble garbled Unicode in a post called Fixing common Unicode mistakes with Python — after they’ve been made. Shortly after that, we released the code in a Python package called ftfy.

You have almost certainly seen the kind of problem ftfy fixes. Here's a shoutout from a developer who found that her database was full of place names such as "BucureÅŸti, Romania" because of someone else's bug. That's easy enough to fix:

pip install ftfy

If ftfy is useful to you, we'd love to hear how you're using it. You can reply to the comments here or e-mail us at info@luminoso.com.