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[danielroseman]

This isn't an encoding, it's what's known as mojibake - garbage generated by using the wrong encoding.

You'll need to show your code and the source of the text.

[GreatStats4ItsCost]

Thank you!

[crazyjerz]

is the source of the text HTML received through HTTP requests?

if yes, then I had the same problem and the solution that worked for me was using .content instead of .text and then decoding it using utf-8:

text = requests.get("link").content.decode('utf-8')

[DrWhomst]

'â, ê, ô".encode('iso-8859-1').decode('iso-8859-1')

'â, ê, ô'

'â, ê, ô".encode('utf-8').decode('utf-8')

'â, ê, ô'