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Question

How to determine what is the encoding of this string?

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Answer 1

It is UTF-8 decoded as Latin-1, encoded as UTF-8, decoded as CP1252.

 >>> u'’'.encode('cp1252').decode('utf8').encode('latin1').decode('utf8') u'\u2019' 

Seriously ... who does this?