Encoding

Personal project to decode badly encoded json file - Later extracted statistics from conversations with friends

Problem:

I received a .json file from facebook and all the non-english characters looked like \u00a0 instead of α

Solution:

1. Fancy general solution: Decoding.py Take each word as binary data, and then decode it to hex format and then with the correct "utf-8" format Problem: For some reason this takes away any formating, tabs, enters etc.

2. First try solution: First_try.py Find 'content' word. In that line, take the sentence, encode to latin-1 and then utf-8. Then add 'content: ' word to keep the formating. Problem: This keeps the formating but is specific to my case.

3. Also I played around with making the .py file to .exe

	\u00ce\u009a\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00bb\u00ce\u00b7\u00ce\u00bc\u00ce\u00ad\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00b1 \u00f0\u009f\u0098\u0098

Is decoded to:

	Καλημέρα

TO-DO:

Find a solution that is as general as Decoding.py and keep the formating as First_try.py