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looks like a classic case of mojibake -- in this case it's interpreted using latin1 when it should be UTF-8:

>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1')
b'Al Ba\xc5\xa3\xe1\xb8\xa9ah'
>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1').decode('UTF-8')
'Al Baţḩah'

Code for those that want to copy/paste into a program instead of command line:

source_text = "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah"
print("source_text=", source_text)
encoded_source_text = source_text.encode('latin1')
decoded_text = encoded_source_text.decode("utf")
print("decoded_text=", decoded_text)

looks like a classic case of mojibake -- in this case it's interpreted using latin1 when it should be UTF-8:

>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1')
b'Al Ba\xc5\xa3\xe1\xb8\xa9ah'
>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1').decode('UTF-8')
'Al Baţḩah'

Code for those that want to copy/paste into a program instead of command line:

source_text = "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah"
print("source_text=", source_text)
encoded_source_text = source_text.encode('latin1')
decoded_text = encoded_source_text.decode('UTF-8')
print("decoded_text=", decoded_text)

looks like a classic case of mojibake -- in this case it's interpreted using latin1 when it should be UTF-8:

>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1')
b'Al Ba\xc5\xa3\xe1\xb8\xa9ah'
>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1').decode('UTF-8')
'Al Baţḩah'

looks like a classic case of mojibake -- in this case it's interpreted using latin1 when it should be UTF-8:

>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1')
b'Al Ba\xc5\xa3\xe1\xb8\xa9ah'
>>> "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah".encode('latin1').decode('UTF-8')
'Al Baţḩah'

Code for those that want to copy/paste into a program instead of command line:

source_text = "Al BaÅ£á ̧©ah"
print("source_text=", source_text)
encoded_source_text = source_text.encode('latin1')
decoded_text = encoded_source_text.decode("utf")
print("decoded_text=", decoded_text)