One of the great parts of the Python ecosystem for data processing is https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ which can handle mojibake and many other unicode-related translation problems.
But seriously, I'm always a little upset when data vendors/customers/etc don't specify the encoding they are using. You'd be surprised how many official or unique sources still use weird encodings in the name of compatibility.
But seriously, I'm always a little upset when data vendors/customers/etc don't specify the encoding they are using. You'd be surprised how many official or unique sources still use weird encodings in the name of compatibility.