Date: 2019.11.14 Stackoverflow: How can I convert encoding of special characters in python?

Text has strange ä å Ä . Probably it was MacOS system.

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It used MAcRoman instead of UTF-8 to decode it.

So it need to be encoded to bytes with MAcRoman and decoded back to string with utf-8

print( text.encode('MacRoman').decode('utf-8') )

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